Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible
So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they left the city
King James Version
And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Holman Bible
Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city exposed while they pursued Israel.
International Standard Version
There wasn't a single man left in Ai or Bethel who didn't run out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.
A Conservative Version
And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. And they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
American Standard Version
And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Amplified
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.
Bible in Basic English
There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.
Darby Translation
And not a man remained in Ai and Bethel that went not out after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Julia Smith Translation
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.
King James 2000
And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel; they left the city open and pursued after Israel.
Modern King James verseion
And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, who did not go after Israel. And they left the city open, and ran after Israel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
So that there was not a man left in Ai, or in Bethel, that went not out after Israel. And they left the city open and followed after Israel.
NET Bible
No men were left in Ai or Bethel; they all went out after Israel. They left the city wide open and chased Israel.
New Heart English Bible
There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
The Emphasized Bible
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.
Webster
And there was not a man left in Ai, or Beth-el that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued Israel.
World English Bible
There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn't go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
Themes
Armies » March in ranks » Decoy
Armies » March in ranks » Stratagems » Ambushes, at ai
Beth-el » A city » A city north of jerusalem » Conquered by joshua
Interlinear
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Pathach
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Joshua 8:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Ai Is Destroyed
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. 18 And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'Stretch out with the javelin which is in thy hand towards Ai, for into thy hand I give it;' and Joshua stretcheth out with the javelin which is in his hand toward the city,
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:30
'And Sihon king of Heshbon hath not been willing to let us pass over by him, for Jehovah thy God hath hardened his spirit, and strengthened his heart, so as to give him into thy hand as at this day.
Joshua 8:3
And Joshua riseth, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooseth thirty thousand men, mighty ones of valour, and sendeth them away by night,
Joshua 8:24-25
And it cometh to pass, at Israel's finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them (and they fall all of them by the mouth of the sword till their consumption), that all Israel turn back to Ai, and smite it by the mouth of the sword;
Joshua 11:20
for from Jehovah it hath been to strengthen their heart, to meet in battle with Israel, in order to devote them, so that they have no grace, but in order to destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Job 5:13
Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
Isaiah 19:11-13
Only, fools are the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, 'A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'