Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 And Joshua and all Israel will be smitten before them, and will flee the way of the desert 16 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. 17 And a man was not left in Ai and the house of God, who will not go forth after Israel: and they will leave the city opened and will pursue after Israel.
Cross References
Judges 20:31
And the sons of Benjamin will come forth to the meeting of the people, they were separated from the city; and they will begin to strike of the people wounded as once upon once, in the highways, which one went up to the house of God, and one to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men in Israel.
Joshua 8:5-6
And I and all the people that are with me will draw near to the city: and it was when they shall come forth to our meeting as at the first, and we fled before them.
Judges 20:36-39
And the sons of Benjamin will see that they were smitten: and the men of Israel will give place to Benjamin, for they trusted to the ambush which they put by Gibeah.
Psalm 9:16
And Jehovah was known by the judgment he did: by the work of his hands the unjust was snared. Meditation. Silence.
Ezekiel 38:11-22
And thou saidst, I will come up upon the land of the open country; I will go to those being at rest, dwelling confidently, all of them dwelling without a wall, and bar and doors not to them,
Revelation 16:14
For they are the spirits of demons, doing signs, to go out upon all the kings of the earth and of the whole habitable globe, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Omnipotent Ruler.
Revelation 19:19-21
And I saw the wild beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to war with him sitting upon the horse, and with his army.