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'Men' in the Bible

After this, Nun's son Joshua sent two men from the Acacia groves as undercover scouts. He told them, "Go and look over the land. Pay special attention to Jericho." So they went out, came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and lodged there.

Verse ConceptsAdulteress ExamplesTwoLand, As A Divine GiftProperty, HousesProstitutionSecrecyActing In SecretTwo Other Menexploring

Then the king of Jericho was told, "Look! Israeli men arrived tonight to scout out the land."

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

So the king of Jericho sent for Rahab and ordered her, "Bring out the men who came to visit you and lodged in your house, because they've come to scout out the entire land."

Verse ConceptsPeople Made Known

Now the woman had taken the two men and hid them. So she replied, "The men really did come to me, but I didn't know from where they came.

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessPeople Hiding PeopleGodly WomanMan And Womanhiding

At dusk, when it was time to close the city gates, the men left. I don't know where the men went. Go after them quickly, and you might overtake them."

Verse ConceptsGatesShutting Gates

So the men pursued them along the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as the search party had left, they shut the city gate after them.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsPursuing PeopleShutting GatesFords

So the men told her, "Our life for yours even to death if you don't betray this mission of ours. Then when the LORD gives us this land, we'll treat you graciously and faithfully."

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsReward, HumanNegotiationDo Not TellExchange Of Individuals

The men replied, "We'll be free from our commitment to you to which you've obligated us

Later, the two men returned from the hill country, crossed over the Jordan River, approached Nun's son Joshua, and told him everything that had happened to them.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

So take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from each tribe.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveTwelve Tribes

"Gather together twelve men from the people one man from each tribe

Verse ConceptsTwelve Tribes

So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had chosen from the people of Israel, one man from each tribe.

Verse ConceptsTwelve Tribes

He told the army, "Go out and encircle the city. Have the armed men march out in front of the ark of the LORD."

Verse ConceptsFallingMoving OnSpiritual Warfare

Armed men preceded the priests who were blowing the trumpets, and a rear guard followed the ark, while the trumpets continued to blow.

The seven priests who carried the seven trumpets made from rams' horns preceded the ark of the LORD, blowing their trumpets constantly. The armed men preceded them, and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets continued to blow.

Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleSeven ThingsTrumpets For BattleSeven Trumpets

They turned over everyone in the city for destruction and executed them, including both men and women, young and old, and oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

Verse ConceptsSheepSwordsAnnihilationExterminationBoth Men And Animals Killedgenocide

Joshua told the two men who had scouted the land, "Go into the prostitute's home and bring her out of it, along with everyone who is with her, just as you promised her."

Verse ConceptsSpyingBringing People Out Of Other PlacesTwo Other Men

So the young men who had been scouts went in and brought Rahab out, along with her father, her mother, her brothers, and everyone else who was with her. They brought her entire family out and set them outside the camp of Israel.

Verse ConceptsOpportunities, In LifeBringing People Out Of Other Places

returned to Joshua. "Not all of the people need to go up," they reported. "Only about two or three thousand men should attack Ai. Since they are so few, don't make all of the army work hard up there."

Verse ConceptsTwo ThousandThree Thousand And UpUnderestimation

So about three thousand went up there, but they ran away from the men of Ai.

Verse ConceptsdefeatThree Thousand And UpIsrael FleeingDefeat Of God's People

The men of Ai killed about 36 of them, pursuing them outside the city gates as far as Shebarim, killing them as they descended. As a result, the army became terrified and lost their confidence.

Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionHeart, HumanMeltingThirty SomeLosing Courage

The LORD then told Joshua, "Don't be afraid or lose heart! Take all the fighting men with you, and go up right now to Ai. Take note that I have handed over the king of Ai into your control, along with his people, his city, and his land.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftWarfare, Nature OfResisting DiscouragementGradual Conquest Of The LandThose God Gave Into Their Hands

So Joshua and all of the fighting men prepared to go out against Ai. Joshua selected 30,000 valiant warriors and sent them out by night,

Taking about 5,000 men, he set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai to the west of the city,

Verse ConceptsFive ThousandWest Sides

Then the men of Ai looked back behind them and all of a sudden! smoke from the city was rising into the sky. They were unable to run in any direction, because the Israelis who had fled toward the wilderness had turned around to attack their pursuers.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesConflagrations

When Joshua and the entire fighting force of Israel observed that the men who had been in ambush had seized the city and that the smoke from the city was rising, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai.

Then the others came out from the city against them, so the men of Ai were surrounded by the Israelis, some on one side and some on the other. Israel attacked them until no one was left to survive or escape.

Verse ConceptsThe Middle

The total of all who fell that day, including men and women, was 12,000 the entire population of Ai.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen Thousand

So they were terrified, since Gibeon was a large city, comparable to one of the royal cities, was larger than Ai, and all of its men had been warriors.

Verse ConceptsCityLargenessFearing Other People

So Joshua gave an order, "Roll large stones up against the mouth of the cave and assign men to stand guard there,

Verse ConceptsRolling

When they had brought these kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel and spoke to the leaders of the men who had gone out to war along with him, "Come close and put your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came near and put their feet on their necks.

Verse ConceptsFeetNecksSubjectionCare Of FeetThose Subjected To People

Appoint three men from each tribe and I'll send them. They'll begin to go through the land and record a description of it, categorized according to their inheritance, and then they'll report back to me.

Verse ConceptsWritingThree Men

So the men started out, following Joshua's command to those who went to scout the land, "Go through the land and record a description of it, and then return to me. I will then cast lots in the presence of the LORD your God in Shiloh."

Verse Conceptsexploring

Then the men left camp and went throughout the land, describing its cities in a book with seven divisions. Then they returned to Joshua at the camp at Shiloh.

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