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Joshua 8:1 (show verse)
Now the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
Joshua 8:2 (show verse)
You shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoil and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
Joshua 8:3 (show verse)
So Joshua rose with all the people of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night.
Joshua 8:4 (show verse)
He commanded them, saying, “See, you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
Joshua 8:5 (show verse)
Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us as at the first, we will flee before them.
Joshua 8:6 (show verse)
They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ So we will flee before them.
Joshua 8:7 (show verse)
And you shall rise from your ambush and take possession of the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand.
Joshua 8:8 (show verse)
Then it will be when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do it according to the word of the Lord. See, I have commanded you.”
Joshua 8:9 (show verse)
So Joshua sent them away, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.
Joshua 8:10 (show verse)
Now Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people to Ai.
Joshua 8:11 (show verse)
Then all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and arrived in front of the city, and camped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
Joshua 8:12 (show verse)
And he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Joshua 8:13 (show verse)
So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north side of the city, and its rear guard on the west side of the city, and Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley.
Joshua 8:14 (show verse)
It came about when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Joshua 8:15 (show verse)
Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Joshua 8:16 (show verse)
And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
Joshua 8:17 (show verse)
So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they left the city unguarded and pursued Israel.
Joshua 8:18 (show verse)
Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” So Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
Joshua 8:19 (show verse)
The men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it, and they quickly set the city on fire.
Joshua 8:20 (show verse)
When the men of Ai turned back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.
Joshua 8:21 (show verse)
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and slew the men of Ai.
Joshua 8:22 (show verse)
Joshua 8:23 (show verse)
But they took alive the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
Joshua 8:24 (show verse)
Now when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
Joshua 8:25 (show verse)
Joshua 8:26 (show verse)
For Joshua did not withdraw his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua 8:27 (show verse)
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Joshua 8:28 (show verse)
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation until this day.
Joshua 8:29 (show verse)
Joshua 8:30 (show verse)
Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
Altar » Mosaic commandments prescribing the construction of
Altar » Built by » Joshua
Altars » Mentioned in scripture » Of joshua
Curse » Curses of the mosaic law
Ebal » Ebal, in samaria
Ebal » Mountain » Ephraim » Altar » built on
Joshua » Characteristics of » Spiritual mindedness
Law » Engraved upon monuments
Mountains » Names of » Ebal, in samaria
Pillar » By joshua, the crossing of the jordan river
Altar » Built by » Joshua
Altars » Mentioned in scripture » Of joshua
Curse » Curses of the mosaic law
Ebal » Ebal, in samaria
Ebal » Mountain » Ephraim » Altar » built on
Joshua » Characteristics of » Spiritual mindedness
Law » Engraved upon monuments
Mountains » Names of » Ebal, in samaria
Pillar » By joshua, the crossing of the jordan river
Joshua 8:31 (show verse)
just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no man had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.
Altar » Mosaic commandments prescribing the construction of
Altar » Built by » Joshua
Altars » Laws regarding the building of
Altars » Mentioned in scripture » Of joshua
Curse » Curses of the mosaic law
Iron » Made into » Tools for artificers
Law » Engraved upon monuments
Peace offerings » Offered » By joshua
Peace offerings » Was offered » By joshua after his victories
Stones » Used » In building altars
Altar » Built by » Joshua
Altars » Laws regarding the building of
Altars » Mentioned in scripture » Of joshua
Curse » Curses of the mosaic law
Iron » Made into » Tools for artificers
Law » Engraved upon monuments
Peace offerings » Offered » By joshua
Peace offerings » Was offered » By joshua after his victories
Stones » Used » In building altars
Joshua 8:32 (show verse)
He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel.
Joshua 8:33 (show verse)
Benedictions » Instances of » By half the tribes, who stood on mount gerizim
Curse » Curses of the mosaic law
Ebal » Ebal, in samaria
Ebal » A mountain of ephraim. Half of the tribes of israel stand on, to respond amen to the curses of the law
Gerizim » Mount of blessing
Law » Curses of, responsively read by levites and people at mount ebal and mount gerizim
Law » Engraved upon monuments
Levites » Pronounced the blessings of the law in the responsive service at mount gerizim
Mountains » Names of » Gerizim, in samaria
Mountains » Names of » Ebal, in samaria
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the law read to them
The word of God » To be read publicly
Worship » The word of God read in public assemblies
Worship » On mount gerizim and mount ebal
Curse » Curses of the mosaic law
Ebal » Ebal, in samaria
Ebal » A mountain of ephraim. Half of the tribes of israel stand on, to respond amen to the curses of the law
Gerizim » Mount of blessing
Law » Curses of, responsively read by levites and people at mount ebal and mount gerizim
Law » Engraved upon monuments
Levites » Pronounced the blessings of the law in the responsive service at mount gerizim
Mountains » Names of » Gerizim, in samaria
Mountains » Names of » Ebal, in samaria
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the law read to them
The word of God » To be read publicly
Worship » The word of God read in public assemblies
Worship » On mount gerizim and mount ebal
Joshua 8:34 (show verse)
Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
Curse » Curses of the mosaic law
Law » Curses of, responsively read by levites and people at mount ebal and mount gerizim
Law » Engraved upon monuments
the Law of moses » Publicly read » By joshua
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the law read to them
The bible » Purpose » Read in the great congregation
The word of God » To be read publicly
Word » Purpose of » Read in the great congregation
Worship » The word of God read in public assemblies
Worship » On mount gerizim and mount ebal
Law » Curses of, responsively read by levites and people at mount ebal and mount gerizim
Law » Engraved upon monuments
the Law of moses » Publicly read » By joshua
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the law read to them
The bible » Purpose » Read in the great congregation
The word of God » To be read publicly
Word » Purpose of » Read in the great congregation
Worship » The word of God read in public assemblies
Worship » On mount gerizim and mount ebal
Joshua 8:35 (show verse)
There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were living among them.
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Children » Present at religious worship
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Law » Bondage of » The public reading of
Law » Curses of, responsively read by levites and people at mount ebal and mount gerizim
Law » Engraved upon monuments
the Law of moses » Publicly read » By joshua
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the law read to them
The bible » The law part of » The public reading of
The word of God » To be read publicly
Woman » Were required to hear and obey the law
Women » Required to attend to the reading of the law of moses
Worship » The word of God read in public assemblies
Worship » Divinity of Christ » Children present at
Worship » On mount gerizim and mount ebal
Children » Present at religious worship
Children » Worship
Children » Indulgence of » Instructed, examples of
Home » Children » Present at religious worship
Instruction » Of children encouraged » Examples of
Law » Bondage of » The public reading of
Law » Curses of, responsively read by levites and people at mount ebal and mount gerizim
Law » Engraved upon monuments
the Law of moses » Publicly read » By joshua
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the law read to them
The bible » The law part of » The public reading of
The word of God » To be read publicly
Woman » Were required to hear and obey the law
Women » Required to attend to the reading of the law of moses
Worship » The word of God read in public assemblies
Worship » Divinity of Christ » Children present at
Worship » On mount gerizim and mount ebal