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Joshua 8 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:1 - The LORD told Joshua, "Don't be afraid and don't panic! Take the whole army with you and march against Ai! See, I am handing over to you the king of Ai, along with his people, city, and land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:2 - Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:3 - Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai. Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:4 - He told them, "Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don't go very far from the city; all of you be ready!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - I and all the troops who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to fight us like before, we will retreat from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:6 - They will attack us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say, 'They are retreating from us like before.' We will retreat from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:7 - Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The LORD your God will hand it over to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:8 - When you capture the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD says! See, I have given you orders."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:9 - Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place west of Ai, between Bethel and Ai. Joshua spent that night with the army.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:10 - Bright and early the next morning Joshua gathered the army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched at the head of it to Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:11 - All the troops that were with him marched up and drew near the city. They camped north of Ai on the other side of the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:12 - He took five thousand men and set an ambush west of the city between Bethel and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:13 - The army was in position - the main army north of the city and the rear guard west of the city. That night Joshua went into the middle of the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - When the king of Ai saw Israel, he and his whole army quickly got up the next day and went out to fight Israel at the meeting place near the Arabah. But he did not realize men were hiding behind the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:15 - Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:16 - All the reinforcements in Ai were ordered to chase them; they chased Joshua and were lured away from the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - No men were left in Ai or Bethel; they all went out after Israel. They left the city wide open and chased Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:18 - The LORD told Joshua, "Hold out toward Ai the curved sword in your hand, for I am handing the city over to you." So Joshua held out toward Ai the curved sword in his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:19 - When he held out his hand, the men waiting in ambush rose up quickly from their place and attacked. They entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:20 - When the men of Ai turned around, they saw the smoke from the city ascending into the sky and were so shocked they were unable to flee in any direction. In the meantime the men who were retreating to the desert turned against their 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 city was going up in smoke, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.

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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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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had chased them toward the desert (they all fell by the sword), all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - Twelve thousand men and women died that day, including all the men of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:26 - Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in accordance with the LORD's orders to Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:28 - Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening. At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day).
(cf. Deu 27:4, 5 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:30 - Then Joshua built an altar for the LORD God of Israel on Mount Ebal,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:31 - just as Moses the LORD's servant had commanded the Israelites. As described in the law scroll of Moses, it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool. They offered burnt sacrifices on it and sacrificed tokens of peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:32 - There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a duplicate of the law written by Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:33 - All the people, rulers, leaders, and judges were standing on either side of the ark, in front of the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD. Both resident foreigners and native Israelites were there. Half the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the LORD's servant had previously instructed to them to do for the formal blessing ceremony.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:34 - Then Joshua read aloud all the words of the law, including the blessings and the curses, just as they are written in the law scroll.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:35 - Joshua read aloud every commandment Moses had given before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, children, and resident foreigners who lived among them.
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Joshua Chapter 8 — Additional Translations:

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