Parallel Verses
Amplified
Then all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away from the city.
New American Standard Bible
And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and
King James Version
And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Holman Bible
Then all the troops of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
International Standard Version
everyone in the city followed after them. As they pursued Joshua, they were drawn away from the town.
A Conservative Version
And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them, and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
American Standard Version
And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Bible in Basic English
And all the people in Ai came together to go after them; and they went after Joshua, moving away from the town.
Darby Translation
And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Julia Smith Translation
And all the people which are in the city will be called together to pursue after them, and they will pursue after Joshua, and be drawn away from the city.
King James 2000
And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All of the people who [were] in the city were called to pursue after them. As they pursued after Joshua, they were drawn away from the city.
Modern King James verseion
And all the people in Ai were called together to run after them. And they ran after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And all the people of the town cried to follow after them. And they followed after Joshua till they were drawn away from the city:
NET Bible
All the reinforcements in Ai were ordered to chase them; they chased Joshua and were lured away from the city.
New Heart English Bible
All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
The Emphasized Bible
and all the people who were in the city were called out to pursue them, - and they pursued Joshua, and so were drawn out away from the city.
Webster
And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue them: and they pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
World English Bible
All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Youngs Literal Translation
and all the people who are in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua, and are drawn away out of the city,
Themes
Armies » March in ranks » Decoy
Armies » March in ranks » Stratagems » Ambushes, at ai
Interlinear
Za`aq
Radaph
'achar
אחר
'achar
Usage: 488
Radaph
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Joshua 8:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ai Is Destroyed
15 So Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them, and ran toward the wilderness. 16 Then all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away from the city. 17 Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel; so they left the city open and unguarded and they pursued Israel.
Cross References
Judges 20:31
The Benjamites went out against
Joshua 8:5-6
Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us [for battle] as [they did] the first time, we will run away from them.
Judges 20:36-39
So the Benjamites realized that they were defeated. Then men of Israel gave ground to the Benjamites, because they relied on the men in ambush whom they had placed against Gibeah.
Psalm 9:16
The Lord has made Himself known;
He executes judgment;
The wicked are trapped by the work of their own hands. Higgaion (meditation) Selah.
Ezekiel 38:11-22
and you will say, ‘I will go up against an open country; I will come against those who are at rest and peaceful, who live securely, all of them living without walls and having neither bars nor gates,
Revelation 16:14
for they are [actually] the spirits of demons, performing [miraculous] signs. And they go out to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty.
Revelation 19:19-21
Then I saw the beast and the kings and political leaders of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against Him who is mounted on the [white] horse and against His army.