Joshua 8:7

you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

In Context

6They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,

8And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”

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Cross References

Joshua 8:1Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.

Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 8:4-23

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. 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: 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, 6 (For they will come out… Read the whole commentary →

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