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Joshua Chapter 8

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Joshua

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In this chapter the Israelites begin to enter the land of the Amorites, who have been living there for many years. They defeat the Amorites in battle and take their land, showing the power of God's judgment. The chapter also records the division of the land among the tribes.

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(1) 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:
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Joshua 1:9Joshua 7:6Joshua 7:7Joshua 7:9Deuteronomy 1:21Deuteronomy 7:18Deuteronomy 31:8Psalms 27:1Psalms 46:11Isaiah 12:2Isaiah 41:10Isaiah 41:11

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Joshua 8:9Joshua 8:3Joshua 8:11Joshua 7:2Joshua 10:1Joshua 8:18

(2) 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.
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Joshua 8:24Joshua 8:28Joshua 8:29Joshua 6:21Joshua 10:1Joshua 10:28Deuteronomy 3:2Joshua 8:27Deuteronomy 20:14Job 27:16Job 27:17Psalms 39:6

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Ezekiel 38:13I Samuel 15:19Judges 5:30Jeremiah 30:16Genesis 47:17Deuteronomy 2:35

(3) 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.
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Matthew 24:39Matthew 24:50Matthew 25:6I Thessalonians 5:2II Peter 3:10

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Joshua 8:9Joshua 10:7Joshua 8:1Joshua 10:24Joshua 11:23Joshua 8:18

(4) 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:
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Joshua 8:16Judges 9:25Judges 20:29Judges 20:33Judges 20:36I Samuel 15:2I Samuel 15:5Acts 23:21Ecclesiastes 7:19Ecclesiastes 9:16

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Hosea 7:6Acts 23:21

(5) 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,
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Joshua 7:5Judges 20:31Judges 20:32Judges 20:33Matthew 10:16

(6) (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.
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Exodus 14:3Exodus 15:9Judges 20:32Ecclesiastes 8:11Ecclesiastes 9:12

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Isaiah 30:17Isaiah 30:16Zechariah 14:5Matthew 10:23

(7) Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
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Joshua 8:1II Kings 5:1Proverbs 21:30Proverbs 21:31

(8) 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.
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Joshua 8:28Joshua 6:24Joshua 1:9Joshua 1:16Judges 4:6II Samuel 13:28

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Numbers 9:23I John 2:7

(9) 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.
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Joshua 8:12Joshua 7:2Genesis 12:8Ezra 2:28Nehemiah 7:32Genesis 32:21

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Joshua 8:3Joshua 7:2Joshua 8:12Joshua 8:1Joshua 8:18Joshua 10:1

(10) 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.
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Joshua 3:1Joshua 6:12Joshua 7:16Psalms 119:60

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Genesis 22:3Joshua 3:1Joshua 6:12Joshua 7:16I Samuel 29:10Joshua 8:9

(11) 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.
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Joshua 8:1Joshua 18:16Joshua 7:2Joshua 8:9Joshua 8:24Joshua 10:1

(12) 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.
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Joshua 8:2Joshua 8:3

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Joshua 8:9Ezekiel 48:16Matthew 25:20Genesis 18:28Numbers 7:17Numbers 7:23

(13) 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.
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Joshua 8:8Joshua 8:12

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Joshua 8:9Joshua 12:7Joshua 18:16Judges 20:37Joshua 8:3Judges 16:2

(14) 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.
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Joshua 8:5Joshua 8:16Judges 20:34Judges 20:35Judges 20:36Ecclesiastes 9:12Isaiah 19:11Isaiah 19:13Daniel 4:31Matthew 24:39Matthew 24:50I Thessalonians 5:1

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Genesis 22:3Exodus 32:6Joshua 8:10I Samuel 17:20I Samuel 29:4Judges 20:37

(15) And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
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Joshua 18:12

(16) 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.
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Judges 20:36Judges 20:37Judges 20:38Judges 20:39Joshua 8:5Joshua 8:6Judges 20:31Psalms 9:16Ezekiel 38:11Ezekiel 38:12Ezekiel 38:13Ezekiel 38:14

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Joshua 8:9Joshua 5:13Joshua 7:2Joshua 8:1Joshua 8:3Joshua 8:18

(17) 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.
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Joshua 8:3Joshua 8:24Joshua 8:25Joshua 11:20Deuteronomy 2:30Job 5:13Isaiah 19:11Isaiah 19:12Isaiah 19:13

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Joshua 7:2Joshua 8:9

(18) 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.
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Joshua 8:7Joshua 8:26Exodus 8:5Exodus 17:11Job 15:25I Samuel 17:6I Samuel 17:41I Samuel 17:45Job 39:23

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I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:17Zechariah 14:4Deuteronomy 28:54

(19) 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.
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I Samuel 17:48John 11:29

(20) 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.
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Genesis 19:28Isaiah 34:10Revelation 18:9Revelation 19:3Job 11:20Psalms 48:5Psalms 48:6Psalms 76:5Amos 2:14Amos 2:15Amos 2:16Revelation 6:15

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Joshua 8:21II Kings 1:5Jeremiah 46:5Judges 20:40Exodus 19:18Judges 20:45

(21) 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.
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Joshua 8:9Joshua 8:20Exodus 19:18Revelation 9:2Joshua 7:2Joshua 8:1

(22) 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.
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Joshua 6:21Joshua 10:28Joshua 11:11Joshua 11:12Deuteronomy 7:2Job 20:5Luke 17:26Luke 17:27Luke 17:28Luke 17:29Luke 17:30I Thessalonians 5:3

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Ephesians 4:11II Samuel 17:9Matthew 13:8Matthew 13:23Mark 4:8Mark 4:20

(23) And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
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Joshua 8:29Joshua 10:17I Samuel 15:8Revelation 19:20

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Joshua 8:9Joshua 6:25Joshua 7:2Joshua 8:1Joshua 8:3Joshua 8:18

(24) 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.
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Joshua 10:30Joshua 10:31Joshua 10:32Joshua 10:33Joshua 10:34Joshua 10:35Joshua 10:36Joshua 10:37Joshua 10:38Joshua 10:39Joshua 10:40Joshua 10:41

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Exodus 9:25Joshua 7:5I Samuel 22:19Deuteronomy 13:15Joshua 10:1II Kings 10:25

(25) And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
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Numbers 7:87Judges 5:27Numbers 7:84Esther 2:12Revelation 7:5Revelation 7:6

(26) For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
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Joshua 8:18Exodus 17:11Exodus 17:12

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Joshua 10:1Joshua 8:18Joshua 11:21Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33

(27) 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.
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Joshua 8:2Joshua 11:4Numbers 31:22Numbers 31:26Psalms 50:10Matthew 20:15

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Ezekiel 38:13Judges 5:30Jeremiah 30:16Genesis 47:17Deuteronomy 2:35Deuteronomy 3:7

(28) And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
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Deuteronomy 13:16II Kings 19:25Isaiah 17:1Isaiah 25:2Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 49:2Jeremiah 50:26Micah 3:12Joshua 4:9

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Joshua 8:9Genesis 31:52Joshua 8:29Joshua 7:2Joshua 8:1Joshua 8:3

(29) 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.
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Joshua 10:26Joshua 10:27Joshua 10:28Joshua 10:30Joshua 10:33Deuteronomy 21:22Deuteronomy 21:23Esther 7:10Psalms 107:40Psalms 110:5Acts 12:23Revelation 19:17

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Isaiah 41:19Ezekiel 17:24Joel 1:12Genesis 2:9Matthew 12:33Romans 11:24

(30) Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,
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Genesis 8:20Genesis 12:7Genesis 12:8

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Exodus 19:20Deuteronomy 11:29Joshua 8:33Joshua 12:7I Kings 12:25

(31) 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.
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Joshua 8:34Joshua 8:35Joshua 1:8II Kings 14:6II Kings 22:8II Chronicles 25:4II Chronicles 35:12Ezra 6:18Nehemiah 13:1Matthew 12:26Exodus 20:24Exodus 20:25

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17I Chronicles 29:2II Chronicles 31:3

(32) 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.
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Deuteronomy 27:2Deuteronomy 27:3Deuteronomy 27:8

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10Daniel 5:5II Samuel 16:19I Kings 5:17

(33) 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.
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Joshua 23:2Joshua 24:1Deuteronomy 27:12Deuteronomy 27:13Deuteronomy 29:10Deuteronomy 29:11Joshua 3:3Joshua 3:6Joshua 3:14Joshua 4:10Joshua 4:18Joshua 6:6

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Exodus 25:10Exodus 37:1Zechariah 14:4Joshua 3:15Exodus 40:20Joshua 3:6

(34) 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.
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Deuteronomy 31:10Deuteronomy 31:11Deuteronomy 31:12Nehemiah 8:2Nehemiah 8:3Nehemiah 9:3Nehemiah 13:1Leviticus 26:1Leviticus 26:2Leviticus 26:3Leviticus 26:4Leviticus 26:5

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I Chronicles 29:29Revelation 22:19II Kings 22:8II Kings 22:13II Chronicles 20:34II Chronicles 34:21

(35) 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.
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Deuteronomy 4:2Jeremiah 26:2Acts 20:27Deuteronomy 29:11Deuteronomy 31:12Ezra 10:1Nehemiah 8:2Joel 2:16Mark 10:14Acts 21:5

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Numbers 31:9Deuteronomy 2:34Deuteronomy 20:14Esther 8:11Proverbs 6:10Proverbs 24:33

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