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 were drawn away from the city.

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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And all the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

that were in Ai
עיּת עיּא עי 
`Ay 
Usage: 40

אחר 
'achar 
אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488
Usage: 488

רדף 
Radaph 
Usage: 143

יהושׁע יהושׁוּע 
Y@howshuwa` 
Usage: 218

נתק 
Nathaq 
Usage: 27

References

American

Ai

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

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 their army and were lured away from the city, and they began to strike and kill some of the people as at other times, on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.

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.

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