Joshua 8:4

WEB

⁴He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

KJV

⁴And 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:

BSB

⁴with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.

FBV

⁴He ordered them, “You lie in ambush behind the town, not far away. All of you need to be ready.

Extra References

Judges 20:29

²⁹Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

1 Samuel 15:5

⁵Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.

Judges 9:25

²⁵The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them; and Abimelech was told about it.

Judges 20:33

³³All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.

Ecclesiastes 9:16

¹⁶Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

Joshua 8:16

¹⁶All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

1 Samuel 15:2

²The LORD of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way when he came up out of Egypt.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

¹⁹Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

Judges 20:36

³⁶So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.

²¹Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”