TOPICAL BIBLE
Ambush
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Joshua 8:2and thou hast done to Ai and to her king as thou hast done to Jericho and to her king; only, its spoil and its cattle ye spoil for yourselves; set for thee an ambush for the city at its rear.’Joshua 8:3And Joshua riseth, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooseth thirty thousand men, mighty ones of valour, and sendeth them away by night,Joshua 8:4and commandeth them, saying, ‘See, ye are liers in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, ye go not very far off from the city, and all of you have been prepared,Joshua 8:5and I and all the people who are with me draw near unto the city, and it hath come to pass when they come out to meet us as at the first, and we have fled before them,Joshua 8:6and they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,Joshua 8:7and ye rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and Jehovah your God hath given it into your hand;Joshua 8:8and it hath been, when ye capture the city, ye burn the city with fire, according to the word of Jehovah ye do, see, I have commanded you.’Joshua 8:9And Joshua sendeth them away, and they go unto the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai; and Joshua lodgeth on that night in the midst of the people.Joshua 8:10And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and inspecteth the people, and goeth up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai;Joshua 8:11and all the people of war who are with him have gone up, and draw nigh and come in over-against the city, and encamp on the north of Ai; and the valley is between him and Ai.Joshua 8:12And he taketh about five thousand men, and setteth them an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city;Joshua 8:13and they set the people, all the camp which is on the north of the city, and its rear on the west of the city, and Joshua goeth on that night into the midst of the valley.Joshua 8:14And it cometh to pass, when the king of Ai seeth it, that hasten, and rise early, and go out do the men of the city to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at the appointed season, at the front of the plain, and he hath not known that an ambush is against him, on the rear of the city.Joshua 8:15And Joshua and all Israel seem stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,Joshua 8:16and all the people who are in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua, and are drawn away out of the city,Joshua 8:17and there hath not been left a man in Ai and Bethel who hath not gone out after Israel, and they leave the city open, and pursue after Israel.Joshua 8:18And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, ‘Stretch out with the javelin which is in thy hand towards Ai, for into thy hand I give it;’ and Joshua stretcheth out with the javelin which is in his hand toward the city,Joshua 8:19and the ambush hath risen with haste, out of its place, and they run at the stretching out of his hand, and go into the city, and capture it, and hasten, and burn the city with fire.Joshua 8:20And the men of Ai look behind them, and see, and lo, the smoke of the city hath gone up unto the heavens, and there hath not been in them power to flee hither and thither—and the people who are fleeing to the wilderness have turned against the pursuer,—Joshua 8:21and Joshua and all Israel have seen that the ambush hath captured the city, and that the smoke of the city hath gone up, and they turn back and smite the men of Ai;Joshua 8:22and these have come out from the city to meet them, and they are in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that, and they smite them till he hath not left to them a remnant and escaped one;Judges 9:25And the masters of Shechem set for him ambushes on the top of the hills, and rob every one who passeth over by them in the way, and it is declared to Abimelech.Judges 9:34And Abimelech riseth, and all the people who are with him, by night, and they lay wait against Shechem—four detachments;Judges 20:29And Israel setteth liers in wait against Gibeah, round about,Judges 20:30and the sons of Israel go up against the sons of Benjamin, on the third day, and arrange themselves against Gibeah, as time by time.Judges 20:31And the sons of Benjamin come out to meet the people; they have been drawn away out of the city, and begin to smite some of the people—wounded as time by time, in the highways (of which one is going up to Beth-El, and the other to Gibeah in the field), are about thirty men of Israel.Judges 20:32And the sons of Benjamin say, ‘They are smitten before us as at the beginning;’ but the sons of Israel said, ‘Let us flee, and draw them away out of the city, unto the highways.’Judges 20:33And all the men of Israel have risen from their place, and arrange themselves at Baal-Tamar, and the ambush of Israel is coming forth out of its place, out of the meadow of Gibeah.Judges 20:34And they come in over against Gibeah—ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel—and the battle is grievous, and they have not known that the evil is striking against them.Judges 20:35And Jehovah smiteth Benjamin before Israel, and the sons of Israel destroy in Benjamin, on that day, twenty and five thousand, and a hundred men; all these are drawing sword.Judges 20:36And the sons of Benjamin see that they have been smitten—and the men of Israel give place to Benjamin, for they have trusted unto the ambush which they had set against Gibeah,Judges 20:37and the ambush have hasted, and push against Gibeah, and the ambush draweth itself out, and smiteth the whole of the city by the mouth of the sword.Judges 20:38And there was the appointed sign to the men of Israel with the ambush—their causing to go up a great volume of smoke from the city.Judges 20:39And the men of Israel turn in battle, and Benjamin hath begun to smite the wounded among the men of Israel, about thirty men, for they said, ‘Surely they are utterly smitten before us, as at the first battle;Judges 20:40and the volume hath begun to go up from the city—a pillar of smoke—and Benjamin turneth behind, and lo, gone up hath the perfection of the city toward the heavens.Judges 20:41And the men of Israel have turned, and the men of Benjamin are troubled, for they have seen that the evil hath stricken against them—2 Chronicles 13:13And Jeroboam hath brought round the ambush to come in from behind them, and they are before Judah, and the ambush is behind them.2 Chronicles 20:22And at the time they have begun with singing and praise, Jehovah hath put ambushments against the sons of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who are coming in to Judah, and they are smitten,Jeremiah 51:12Unto the walls of Babylon lift up an ensign, Strengthen the watch, Establish the watchers, prepare the ambush, For Jehovah hath both devised and done that which He spake, Concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
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