Joshua 8:1-13
PREPARATIONS FOR THE TAKING OF AI... [ Continue Reading ]
PREPARATIONS FOR THE TAKING OF AI... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Lord, having restored His favor to Israel by the expiation of Achan's death, SAID UNTO JOSHUA, FEAR NOT, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED, cast down and filled with apprehension. TAKE ALL THE PEOPLE OF WAR WITH THEE, the entire army, AND ARISE, GO UP TO AI; SEE, I HAVE GIVEN INTO THY HAND THE KING O... [ Continue Reading ]
and thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king, exterminate all human beings; ONLY THE SPOIL THEREOF, in money and goods, AND THE CATTLE THEREOF SHALL YE TAKE FOR A PREY UNTO YOURSELVES, for only Jericho, as first-fruits, had been devoted to the Lord. LAY THEE AN AMBUSH... [ Continue Reading ]
So Joshua arose and all the people of war, the entire army, as ordered by God, TO GO UP AGAINST AI, he gave the command that all should be mustered. AND JOSHUA CHOSE OUT THIRTY THOUSAND MIGHTY MEN OF VALOR AND SENT THEM AWAY BY NIGHT, since the distance was such as to be made easily in one night's m... [ Continue Reading ]
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, ready for an attack, EVEN BEHIND THE CITY. GO NOT VERY FAR FROM THE CITY, BUT BE YE ALL READY;... [ Continue Reading ]
and I and all the people that are with me, the main division of the army, WILL APPROACH UNTO THE CITY, along the road which led to it from the southeast; AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, WHEN THEY COME OUT AGAINST US, AS AT THE FIRST, THAT WE WILL FLEE BEFORE THEM, employ this ruse to draw them out of the... [ Continue Reading ]
(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, thus strengthening the enemy in their false supposition and causing them to abandon caution.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then ye shall rise up from the ambush and seize upon the city, capture it without difficulty; FOR THE LORD, YOUR GOD, WILL DELIVER IT INTO YOUR HAND.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Joshua therefore sent them forth; and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai, there being some rocky ridges to the southwest, where concealment could easily be made. BUT JOSHUA LODGED THAT NIGHT AMONG THE PEOPLE, in camp with the larger division of his ar... [ Continue Reading ]
And Joshua rose up early in the morning and numbered the people, mustered them, AND WENT UP, HE AND THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL, for it behooved them to take the lead in the attack, BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF AI, so that the watchmen of the city could see them.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Thus their camp was plainly visible from Ai, but could not easily be attacked.... [ Continue Reading ]
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, for there was a second ridge toward the northwest.... [ Continue Reading ]
And when they had set the people, assigned to every company and every individual the place which he was to occupy in the attack, 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, moved forward, a... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, believing they had only the army to the north of the city to deal with; AND THE MEN OF THE CITY WENT OUT AGAINST ISRAEL TO BATTLE, HE (the king) AND ALL HIS PEOPLE, AT A TIME APPOINTED, BEFORE THE PLAIN, in the only... [ Continue Reading ]
AI TAKEN AND DESTROYED... [ Continue Reading ]
And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, they feigned fear and weakness, AND FLED BY THE WAY OF THE WILDERNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
And all the people that were in Ai, all the able-bodied men, WERE CALLED TOGETHER TO PURSUE AFTER THEM; AND THEY PURSUED AFTER JOSHUA, AND WERE DRAWN AWAY FROM THE CITY, leaving the latter altogether unprotected.... [ Continue Reading ]
And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, the inhabitants of the latter city having joined the forces of Ai, THAT WENT NOT OUT AFTER ISRAEL; AND THEY LEFT THE CITY OPEN, AND PURSUED AFTER ISRAEL, thinking that the army of Israel was fleeing in utter and hopeless rout.... [ Continue Reading ]
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. Joshua was probably occupying some higher point from which he was easily visible, or he may have been mounted and his figure easily distinguishable even at a distance. AND JOSHUA S... [ Continue Reading ]
And the ambush, to whom the outposts had immediately signaled to that effect, AROSE QUICKLY OUT OF THEIR PLACE, AND THEY RAN AS SOON AS HE HAD STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND; AND THEY ENTERED INTO THE CITY, whose defenders were all engaged in the pursuit of the Israelites, AND TOOK IT, AND HASTED AND SET TH... [ Continue Reading ]
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, their attention being drawn in that direction by the behavior of the Israelites, who turned to watch for the signal of the smoke's rising, THEY SAW, AND, BEHOLD, THE SMOKE OF THE CITY ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN, AND THEY HAD NO POWER TO NEE THIS WAY OR THAT WAY,... [ Continue Reading ]
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, for this was the sign for which they had been waiting, THEN THEY TURNED AGAIN, AND SLEW THE MEN OF AI.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the other, the Israelites who had lain in ambush, ISSUED OUT OF THE CITY AGAINST THEM; SO THEY WERE IN THE MIDST OF ISRAEL, SOME ON THIS SIDE AND SOME ON THAT SIDE, caught in a trap from which there was no escape. AND THEY, the Israelites, SMOTE THEM, SO THAT THEY LET NONE OF THEM REMAIN OR ESCA... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua, who was to rule regarding his disposal.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 t... [ Continue Reading ]
And so it was that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai, the adult inhabitants.... [ Continue Reading ]
For Joshua drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out the spear until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. This he did according to the universal rule of the ancients, which required the general to hold the signal of battle aloft until he desired the battle to be ended.... [ Continue Reading ]
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,... [ Continue Reading ]
And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an heap forever, a heap of ashes and broken stones, EVEN A DESOLATION UNTO THIS DAY; its ruins were still visible at the time when the author wrote this account.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide, Numbers 25:4; AND AS SOON AS THE SUN WAS DOWN, JOSHUA COMMANDED THAT THEY SHOULD TAKE HIS CARCASS DOWN FROM THE TREE, Deuteronomy 21:23, AND CAST IT AT THE ENTERING OF THE GATE OF THE CITY, AND RAISE THEREON A GREAT HEAP OF STONES, THAT REMAINET... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal, as the Lord had commanded, Deuteronomy 27:4,... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSING AND CURSE PROCLAIMED... [ Continue Reading ]
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, Exodus 20:25. AND THEY OFFERED THEREON BURNT OFFERINGS UNTO THE LORD, AND SACRIFICED PEACE-OFFERINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he (Joshua) WROTE THERE UPON THE STONES A COPY OF THE LAW OF MOSES, WHICH HE WROTE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, Deuteronomy 27:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
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, the ark thus occupying the center between the two divisions of the tribes, WHICH BARE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD, AS WELL THE STRANGER AS HE THAT WAS B... [ Continue Reading ]
And afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessings and cursings, fulfilling the Law being in itself a blessing and transgressing it being in itself a curse, Deuteronomy 11:26, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 (living with) THEM, who had chosen to cast their lot with that of Israel. We believers of the New Covenant wil... [ Continue Reading ]