Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and the whole military force set out to attack Ai. Joshua selected 30,000 fighting men and sent them out at night.

Matthew 24:39

They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. So this is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be:

Matthew 24:50

that slave’s master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not know.

Matthew 25:6

“In the middle of the night there was a shout: ‘Here’s the groom! Come out to meet him.’

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

2 Peter 3:10

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief; on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed.

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Summary

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

By night

General references

Joshua 8:11

Bible References

By night

They didn’t know until the flood came and swept them all away. So this is the way the coming of the Son of Man will be:

“In the middle of the night there was a shout: ‘Here’s the groom! Come out to meet him.’

For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief;

on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed.

General references

All those who were with him went up and approached the city, arriving opposite Ai, and camped to the north of it, with a valley between them and the city.