Joshua 8:4 - Modern English Version

⁴ He commanded them, “Behold, you shall ambush the city from behind. Do not go very far from the city. All of you be ready.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And he commanded them, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

Common English Bible

⁴ He commanded them, “Look. You are to ambush the city from behind. Don’t move too far away from the city. Be ready, all of you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And he instructed them, saying: "Set an ambush behind the city. You shall withdraw not far away, and let everyone be prepared.

Joshua 8:4 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 7:12

The king got up in the night and said to his servants, “I will show you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are starving, so they left the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’ ”

2 Chronicles 13:13

So Jeroboam went around them with an ambush to come from behind them. Those from Israel were in front of Judah, while the ambush was behind them.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom gives the wise person more strength than ten rulers who are in the city.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength; yet the wisdom of the poor man is despised, and his words are not heard.”

Acts 23:21

Do not trust them. More than forty men, who have bound themselves with an oath to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him, are waiting for him. And now they are ready, waiting for your promise.”

Joshua 8:16

All the people who were in Ai were assembled to pursue them, so they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, mighty men of valor, and sent them out at night.

Judges 20:29

So Israel set an ambushing force around Gibeah.

Judges 20:33

So all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and assumed their battle positions at Baal Tamar. Then the men of Israel in ambush charged out of their places, out of the meadows of Gibeah.

Judges 20:36

The Benjamites saw that they were defeated. Now the men of Israel had withdrawn from Benjamin, because they relied on the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.

Judges 9:25

The leaders of Shechem set ambushes against him on the hilltops and robbed all who passed by them on the road. This was told to Abimelech.

Judges 9:32

So now, get up at night, you and the people with you, and lie in wait in the field.

1 Samuel 15:2

Thus says the Lord of Hosts, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt.

1 Samuel 15:5

Then Saul came to the city of Amalek and laid an ambush in the valley.