Parallel Verses
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,
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.
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.
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 seem stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness, 16 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, 17 and there hath not been left a man in Ai and Bethel who hath not gone out after Israel, and they leave the city open, and pursue after Israel.
Cross References
Judges 20:31
And the sons of Benjamin come out to meet the people; they have been drawn away out of the city, and begin to smite some of the people -- wounded as time by time, in the highways (of which one is going up to Beth-El, and the other to Gibeah in the field), are about thirty men of Israel.
Joshua 8:5-6
and I and all the people who are with me draw near unto the city, and it hath come to pass when they come out to meet us as at the first, and we have fled before them,
Judges 20:36-39
And the sons of Benjamin see that they have been smitten -- and the men of Israel give place to Benjamin, for they have trusted unto the ambush which they had set against Gibeah,
Psalm 9:16
Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.
Ezekiel 38:11-22
And thou hast said: I go up against a land of unwalled villages, I go in to those at rest, dwelling confidently, All of them are dwelling without walls, And bar and doors they have not.
Revelation 16:14
for they are spirits of demons, doing signs -- which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to bring them together to the battle of that great day of God the Almighty; --
Revelation 19:19-21
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, having been gathered together to make war with him who is sitting upon the horse, and with his army;