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Joshua 8 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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The Conquest of Ai

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Now the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you. Arise, go up to Ai; see, I have handed over to you the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - “You shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoils and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. [fn]Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

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So Joshua rose up with all the people of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - He commanded them, saying, “See, you are going to ambush the city from behind [fn]it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - “Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us as they did the first time, we will flee before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - “They will come out after us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us just as they did the first time.’ So we will flee before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:7 - “Then you shall rise from your ambush and take possession of the city, for the LORD your God will hand it over to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:8 - “Then it will be when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do it in accordance with the word of the LORD. See, I have commanded you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 - So Joshua sent them away, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.

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Now Joshua got up early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people to Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - Then all the people of war who were with him went up and approached, and arrived in front of the city; and they camped on the north side of Ai. And there was a valley between him and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - Then he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the [fn]city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north side of the city, and its rear guard on the west side of the city, and Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - And it came about, when the king of Ai saw them, that the men of the city hurried and got up early, and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:15 - Then Joshua and all Israel [fn]pretended to be defeated before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16 - And 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel, [fn]but they had all gone out after Israel, and they left the city [fn]unguarded and pursued Israel.

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Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Reach out with the sword that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will hand it over to you.” So Joshua reached out with the sword that was in his hand toward the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:19 - Then the men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had reached out with his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it, and they quickly set the city on fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - When the men of Ai turned [fn]back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and [fn]killed the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - [fn]The others came out from the city to confront them, so that they were trapped in the midst of Israel, [fn]some on this side and some on that side; and they [fn]killed them until there was not one [fn]left who escaped or survived.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:23 - But they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

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Now when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - So all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand—all the [fn]people of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:26 - For Joshua did not withdraw his hand with which he reached out with the sword until he had [fn]utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Israel took only the cattle and the spoils of that city as plunder for themselves, in accordance with the word of the LORD which He had commanded Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:28 - So Joshua burned Ai and made it a refuse heap forever, a desolation until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he hanged the king of Ai on [fn]a tree until evening; but at sunset Joshua gave the command and they took his body down from [fn]the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and erected over it a large heap of stones that stands to this day.
(cf. Deu 27:4, 5 )

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Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:31 - just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no one had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:32 - And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which [fn]he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:33 - And all Israel with their elders, officers, and their judges were standing on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as the native. Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at first to bless the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - Then afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessing and the curse, according to everything that is written in the Book of the Law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:35 - There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel with the women, the little ones, and the strangers who were [fn]living among them.
See the NASB20 Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit Set for yourself
Lit the city
I.e., Ai
Lit reversed before
Lit who had not gone
Lit open
Lit behind them
Lit struck
Lit These came
Lit these...these
Lit struck
Lit left to it one
Lit men
Lit put under the ban
Lit the wood
Lit the wood
I.e., Moses
Lit walking
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Joshua Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

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