These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Joshua 8
Tanakh 35 verses
- 1 And said unto : ‘Fear not, neither be thou dismayed; take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land.
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And thou shalt do to Ai and her as thou didst unto and her ; only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves; set thee an ambush for the city behind it.’
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Deuteronomy 20:14 2 Chronicles 20:22 Joshua 6:21 Proverbs 13:22 Joshua 10:1 Joshua 8:9 Joshua 8:12 Psalm 39:6 2 Chronicles 13:13 Joshua 8:24 Joshua 10:28 Luke 12:20-21 Proverbs 28:20 Deuteronomy 3:2 Joshua 8:14 Joshua 8:27-29 Job 27:16-17 Jeremiah 51:12 Joshua 8:19 Jeremiah 17:11 Judges 20:29-33 Joshua 8:7 -
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So arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai; and chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valour, and sent them forth by night.
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- 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.
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And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city; and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
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And they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say: They flee before us, as at the first; so we will flee before them.
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And ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for your will deliver it into your hand.
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And it shall be, when ye have seized upon the city, that ye shall set the city on fire; according to the of shall ye do; see, I have commanded you.’
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And sent them forth; and they went to the ambushment, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but lodged that night among the people.
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And rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of , before the people to Ai.
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- 11 And all the people, even the men of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai—now there was a valley between him and Ai.
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And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai.
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So the people set themselves in array, even all the host that was on the north of the city, their rear lying in wait on the west of the city; and went that night into the midst of the vale.
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- 14 And it came to pass, when the of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hastened and rose up early and went out against to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, in front of the Arabah; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
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And and all made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
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And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after , and were drawn away from the city.
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And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after ; and they left the city open, and pursued after .
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And said unto : ‘Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand.’ And stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
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- 19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hastened and set the city on fire.
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And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to , and they had no power to flee this way or that way; and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
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- 21 And when and all saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back, and slew the men of Ai.
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And the other came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of , some on this side, and some on that side; and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
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And the of Ai they took alive, and brought him to .
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And it came to pass, when had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, even in the wilderness wherein they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
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And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
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For drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
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Only the cattle and the spoil of that city took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the of which He commanded .
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So burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.
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- 29 And the of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide; and at the going down of the sun commanded, and they took his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.
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Then built an unto , the of , in mount Ebal,
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- 31 as the of commanded the children of , as it is written in the book of the of , an of unhewn stones, upon which no man had lifted up any iron; and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto , and sacrificed -offerings.
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And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the of , which he wrote before the children of .
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And all , and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the and on that side before the priests the Levites, that bore the of the of , as well the stranger as the home-born; half of them in front of mount Gerizim and half of them in front of mount Ebal; as the of had commanded at the first, that they should the people of .
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- 34 And afterward he read all the words of the , the and the , according to all that is written in the book of the .
- 35 There was not a of all that commanded, which read not before all the of , and the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that walked among them.