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Joshua 8:1 (show verse)
Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
Joshua 8:2 (show verse)
You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."
Joshua 8:3 (show verse)
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
Joshua 8:4 (show verse)
He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don't go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
Joshua 8:5 (show verse)
I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
Joshua 8:6 (show verse)
They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,
Joshua 8:7 (show verse)
and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
Joshua 8:8 (show verse)
It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the word of Yahweh. Behold, I have commanded you."
Joshua 8:9 (show verse)
Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
Joshua 8:10 (show verse)
Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
Joshua 8:11 (show verse)
All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
Joshua 8:12 (show verse)
He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Joshua 8:13 (show verse)
So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
Joshua 8:14 (show verse)
It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Joshua 8:15 (show verse)
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Joshua 8:16 (show verse)
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.
Joshua 8:17 (show verse)
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.
Joshua 8:18 (show verse)
Yahweh said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
Joshua 8:19 (show verse)
The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.
Joshua 8:20 (show verse)
When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
Joshua 8:21 (show verse)
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.
Joshua 8:22 (show verse)
The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
Joshua 8:23 (show verse)
They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
Joshua 8:24 (show verse)
It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.
Joshua 8:25 (show verse)
All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
Joshua 8:26 (show verse)
For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua 8:27 (show verse)
Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.
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Joshua 8:28 (show verse)
So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
Joshua 8:29 (show verse)
He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
Joshua 8:30 (show verse)
Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
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Ebal » Ebal, in samaria
Ebal » Mountain » Ephraim » Altar » built on
Joshua » Characteristics of » Spiritual mindedness
Law » Engraved upon monuments
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Pillar » By joshua, the crossing of the jordan river
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Curse » Curses of the mosaic law
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Joshua » Characteristics of » Spiritual mindedness
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Pillar » By joshua, the crossing of the jordan river
Joshua 8:31 (show verse)
as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings.
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Curse » Curses of the mosaic law
Iron » Made into » Tools for artificers
Law » Engraved upon monuments
Peace offerings » Offered » By joshua
Peace offerings » Was offered » By joshua after his victories
Stones » Used » In building altars
Altar » Built by » Joshua
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Altars » Mentioned in scripture » Of joshua
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Peace offerings » Was offered » By joshua after his victories
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Joshua 8:32 (show verse)
He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
Joshua 8:33 (show verse)
All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh's covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
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Curse » Curses of the mosaic law
Ebal » Ebal, in samaria
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Gerizim » Mount of blessing
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Ebal » Ebal, in samaria
Ebal » A mountain of ephraim. Half of the tribes of israel stand on, to respond amen to the curses of the law
Gerizim » Mount of blessing
Law » Curses of, responsively read by levites and people at mount ebal and mount gerizim
Law » Engraved upon monuments
Levites » Pronounced the blessings of the law in the responsive service at mount gerizim
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Mountains » Names of » Ebal, in samaria
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Joshua 8:34 (show verse)
Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
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Law » Engraved upon monuments
the Law of moses » Publicly read » By joshua
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The word of God » To be read publicly
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Worship » On mount gerizim and mount ebal
Law » Curses of, responsively read by levites and people at mount ebal and mount gerizim
Law » Engraved upon monuments
the Law of moses » Publicly read » By joshua
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the law read to them
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The word of God » To be read publicly
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Worship » On mount gerizim and mount ebal
Joshua 8:35 (show verse)
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
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