And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:
Fear not
Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage; be not …
Joshua 7:6,7,9 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before …
Deuteronomy 1:21 Behold, the LORD your God has set the land before you: go up and …
Deuteronomy 7:18 You shall not be afraid of them: but shall well remember what the …
Deuteronomy 31:8 And the LORD, he it is that does go before you; he will be with you, …
Psalm 27:1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD …
Psalm 46:11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for …
Isaiah 41:10-16 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …
Isaiah 43:1 But now thus said the LORD that created you, O Jacob, and he that …
Jeremiah 46:27 But fear not you, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: …
Matthew 8:26 And he said to them, Why are you fearful, O you of little faith? …
take all It would seem, from this verse, that all that were capable of bearing arms were to march out of the camp on this occasion:
Joshua 8:12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush …
Joshua 8:25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, …
See, I have
Joshua 6:2 And the LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hand Jericho, …
Psalm 44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither …
Daniel 2:21,27,38 And he changes the times and the seasons: he removes kings, and sets …
Daniel 4:25,35 That they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with …
And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.
do to Ai
Joshua 8:24,28,29 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the …
Joshua 6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and …
Joshua 10:1,28 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard …
Deuteronomy 3:2 And the LORD said to me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and …
only the spoil
Joshua 8:2 And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her …
Deuteronomy 20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that …
Job 27:16,17 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay…
Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted …
Proverbs 13:22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children: and …
Proverbs 28:20 A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that makes haste …
Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets …
Luke 12:20,21 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required …
lay thee
Joshua 8:7,9,12,14,19 Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize on the city: for …
Judges 20:29-33 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah…
2 Chronicles 13:13 But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them: so they …
2 Chronicles 20:22 And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes …
Jeremiah 51:12 Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, …
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.
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
(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.
Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
Ai saw it
Joshua 8:5,16 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach to the …
he wist not
Judges 20:34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all …
Ecclesiastes 9:12 For man also knows not his time: as the fishes that are taken in …
Isaiah 19:11,13 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors …
Daniel 4:31 While the word was in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, …
Matthew 24:39,50 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall …
1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 But of the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that …
2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise …
And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
called together
Judges 20:36-39 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men …
drawn away
Joshua 8:5,6 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach to the …
Judges 20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were …
Psalm 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is …
Ezekiel 38:11-22 And you shall say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; …
Revelation 16:14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth …
Revelation 19:19-21 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, …
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.
a man
Joshua 8:3,24,25 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: …
Joshua 11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come …
Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD …
Job 5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the …
Isaiah 19:11-13 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors …
Bethel Bethel is not mentioned in the Greek version, and some, with Houbigant and Pilkington, think it was not originally in the Hebrew; because, had the men of Bethel pursued, as well as those of Ai, it would have been said that they left the cities, and not the city open. The principal strength of Bethel might have been previously taken into Ai, as the strongest place to make a stand in; Bethel being but about three miles westward from Ai.
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
Stretch
Joshua 8:7,26 Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize on the city: for …
Exodus 8:5 And the LORD spoke to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch forth your hand …
Exodus 17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: …
Job 15:25 For he stretches out his hand against God, and strengthens himself …
the spear The word keedon is rendered clypeum, a shield or buckler, by the Vulgate but the LXX. translate it (), which Suidas says, signifies a kind of weapon, (), like a spear. It may denote a short spear, javelin, or lance; for it is evident that it signifies neither the larger spear nor the shield, because it is distinguished from both
1 Samuel 17:6,41,45 And he had greaves of brass on his legs, and a target of brass between …
Job 39:23 The quiver rattles against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
And 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: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
the smoke
Genesis 19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land …
Isaiah 34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go …
Revelation 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived …
Revelation 19:3 And again they said, Alleluia And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
and they had
Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, …
Psalm 48:5,6 They saw it, and so they marveled; they were troubled, and hurried away…
Psalm 76:5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none …
Amos 2:14-16 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong …
Revelation 6:15-17 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, …
power [heb] hand
And 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 slew the men of Ai.
And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
the cattle
Joshua 8:2 And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her …
Joshua 11:4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, …
Numbers 31:22,26 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead…
Psalm 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
Matthew 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye …
he commanded
Joshua 8:2 And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her …
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
the king The kings of Canaan lay under the same curse as their subjects and probably were more deeply criminal. The reserving of the king of Ai for a solemn execution, would tend to strike terror into the other kings, contribute to the success of Israel, and give their proceedings the stamp of a judicial process, and of executing the vengeance of God upon his enemies
Joshua 10:26-28,30,33 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on …
Deuteronomy 21:22,23 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be …
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. …
Psalm 107:40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, …
Psalm 110:5 The Lord at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
Acts 12:23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave …
Revelation 19:17,18 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud …
as soon
Joshua 10:27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that …
a great heap
Joshua 7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. So the …
2 Samuel 18:17 And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, …
Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,
As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
as it is
Joshua 8:34,25 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and …
Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you …
2 Kings 14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew not: according to that …
2 Kings 22:8 And Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found …
2 Chronicles 25:4 But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law …
2 Chronicles 35:12 And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according …
Ezra 6:18 And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their …
Nehemiah 13:1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the …
Matthew 12:26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall …
altar
Exodus 20:24,25 An altar of earth you shall make to me, and shall sacrifice thereon …
Deuteronomy 27:5,6 And there shall you build an altar to the LORD your God, an altar …
1 Kings 18:31,32 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes …
and they offered
Exodus 18:12 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices …
Exodus 24:5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt …
Deuteronomy 27:6,7 You shall build the altar of the LORD your God of whole stones: and …
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
all Israel
Joshua 23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their …
Joshua 24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called …
Deuteronomy 27:12,13 These shall stand on mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you …
Deuteronomy 29:10,11 You stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains …
priests
Joshua 3:3,6,14 And they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the …
Joshua 4:10,18 For the priests which bore the ark stood in the middle of Jordan…
Joshua 6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, Take …
Deuteronomy 31:9,25 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons …
1 Chronicles 15:11-15 And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the …
stranger
Exodus 12:49 One law shall be to him that is home born, and to the stranger that …
Leviticus 24:22 You shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for …
Numbers 15:16,29 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that …
Deuteronomy 31:12 Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and your …
Moses
Joshua 8:30-32 Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal…
Deuteronomy 11:29 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD your God has brought you …
Deuteronomy 27:12 These shall stand on mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you …
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
he read
Deuteronomy 31:10-12 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, …
Nehemiah 8:2,3 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both …
Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law …
Nehemiah 13:1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the …
blessings
Leviticus 26:1-46 You shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither raise you up …
Deuteronomy 27:14-26 And the Levites shall speak, and say to all the men of Israel with …
Deuteronomy 28:1-68 And it shall come to pass, if you shall listen diligently to the …
Deuteronomy 29:20,21 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his …
Deuteronomy 30:15-20 See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil…
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
was not
Deuteronomy 4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall …
Jeremiah 26:2 Thus said the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak …
Acts 20:27 For I have not shunned to declare to you all the counsel of God.
women
Deuteronomy 29:11 Your little ones, your wives, and your stranger that is in your camp, …
Deuteronomy 31:12 Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and your …
Ezra 10:1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and …
Nehemiah 8:2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both …
Joel 2:16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, …
Mark 10:14 But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said to them, …
Acts 21:5 And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our …
strangers
Joshua 8:33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges…
were [heb] walked
conversant The word conversant, from the Latin conversor, is here used in the classical sense of having intercourse with.
