Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 then Joshua and all Israel suffered themselves to be smitten before them, - and fled, by the way of the wilderness; 16 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. 17 And there remained not a man, in Ai or Bethel, who had not gone out after Israel, - and they left the city, open, and pursued Israel.
Cross References
Judges 20:31
And the sons of Benjamin came forth against the people, they were drawn away from the city, - and began to smite of the people, slaying as time after time, in the highways, whereof, one, goeth up to Bethel, and, the other, to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men in Israel.
Joshua 8:5-6
But, I, and all the people who are with me, will draw near unto the city, - and it shall be, when they come out to meet us, as at the first, then will we flee before them;
Judges 20:36-39
So the sons of Benjamin saw that they were smitten, - and that the men of Israel had given place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the liers in wait, whom they had set near Gibeah.
Psalm 9:16
To be known is Yahweh, by the sentence he hath executed, By the doing of his own hands, is he about to strike down the lawless one. Refunding music. Selah.
Ezekiel 38:11-22
and wilt say - I will go up over a land of hamlets, I will enter among them who are at rest dwelling securely, - All of them, dwelling without a wall, Who bars and doors, have none;
Revelation 16:14
for they are spirits of demons, doing signs, which are to go forth unto the kings of the whole habitable earth, to gather them together unto the battle of the great day of God the Almighty. -
Revelation 19:19-21
And I saw the wild-beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together - to make war with him who was sitting upon the horse, and with his army.