Joshua 8:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

Drawn

Joshua 8:16

They flee

Ecclesiastes 9:12

General references

Joshua 8:19

Bible References

Drawn

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.

They flee

For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’

“The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;
My desire shall be satisfied against them;
I will draw my sword, my hand shall dispossess them and drive them out.’

And the Benjamites said, “They are defeated before us, as at the first.” But the sons of Israel said, “Let us flee and lure them away from the city to the highways.”

Because the sentence against an evil act is not executed quickly, the hearts of the sons of men are fully set to do evil.

For man also does not know his time [of death]; like fish caught in a treacherous net, and birds caught in the snare, so the sons of men are ensnared in an evil time when a dark cloud suddenly falls on them.

General references

The [men in] ambush emerged quickly from their [hiding] place, and when Joshua stretched out his hand they ran and entered the city and captured it, and quickly set the city on fire.