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Joshua 8

Josh. 8:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And thou shalt do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
to Ai
`Ay (Hebrew #5857)
or eAyath (Isaiah 10:28) {ah-yawth'}; for 5856; Ai, Aja or Ajath, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Ai, Aija, Aijath, Hai.
Pronounce: ah'ee
Origin: or (feminine) uAya( (Neh. 11:31) {ah-yaw'}
and her king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
as thou didst
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
unto Jericho
Yriychow (Hebrew #3405)
or variation (1 Kings 16:34) Yriychoh {yer-ee-kho'}; perhaps from 3394; its month; or else from 7306; fragrant; Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Jericho.
Pronounce: yer-ee-kho'
Origin: or Yrechow {yer-ay-kho'}
a and her king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
: only the spoil
shalal (Hebrew #7998)
booty
KJV usage: prey, spoil.
Pronounce: shaw-lawl'
Origin: from 7997
b thereof, and the cattle
bhemah (Hebrew #929)
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
KJV usage: beast, cattle.
Pronounce: be-hay-maw'
Origin: from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute)
thereof, shall ye take for a prey
bazaz (Hebrew #962)
to plunder
KJV usage: catch, gather, (take) for a prey, rob(-ber), spoil, take (away, spoil), X utterly.
Pronounce: baw-zaz'
Origin: a primitive root
unto yourselves: lay
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
thee an ambush
'arab (Hebrew #693)
to lurk
KJV usage: (lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.
Pronounce: aw-rab'
Origin: a primitive root
for the city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
behind
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
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Josh. 6:21• 21And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. (Josh. 6:21)
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Deut. 20:14• 14only the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that shall be in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take as booty for thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. (Deut. 20:14)

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Ai; Hai,
Ambush; Ambushment,
Cattle,
Jericho,
Kings,
Spoil

Cross References

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do to Ai.
Josh. 8:24,28‑29• 24And 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.
 28And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.
 29And 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 carcass 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. (Josh. 8:24,28‑29)
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Josh. 6:21• 21And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. (Josh. 6:21)
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Josh. 10:1,28• 1Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedec king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
 28And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, him and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed; he let none remain; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. (Josh. 10:1,28)
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Deut. 3:2• 2And Jehovah said unto me, Fear not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon. (Deut. 3:2)
only the spoil.
Josh. 8:27• 27Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua. (Josh. 8:27)
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Deut. 20:14• 14only the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that shall be in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take as booty for thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. (Deut. 20:14)
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Job 27:16‑17• 16If he heap up silver as dust, and prepare clothing as clay,
 17He prepareth, but the righteous shall put [it] on,{HR}And the innocent shall divide the silver. (Job 27:16‑17)
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Psa. 39:6• 6Surely in an image doth man walk;{HR}Surely in vain are they disquieted:{HR}He hoardeth, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:6)
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Prov. 13:22• 22A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children;{HR}But the sinner's wealth [is] laid up for the righteous. (Prov. 13:22)
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Prov. 28:20• 20A faithful man aboundeth with blessings;{HR}But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. (Prov. 28:20)
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Jer. 17:11• 11As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. (Jer. 17:11)
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Luke 12:20‑21• 20But God said unto him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
 21Thus is he who layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. (Luke 12:20‑21)
lay thee.
Josh. 8:7,9,12,14,19• 7Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.
 9Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
 12And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.
 14And 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.
 19And the ambush arose quickly from their place, and they ran when he stretched out his hand, and came into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire. (Josh. 8:7,9,12,14,19)
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Judg. 20:29‑33• 29And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah, round about.
 30And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at the other times.
 31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city, and began to smite of the people, slaying as at the former times, in the highways, of which one leads to Bethel and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
 32And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. And the children of Israel said, Let us flee, that we may draw them from the city to the highways.
 33And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-Tamar; and the ambush of Israel rushed forth out of their place, out of the meadows of Geba. (Judg. 20:29‑33)
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2 Chron. 13:13• 13But Jeroboam caused an ambushment, to come about behind them; and they were before Judah, and the ambush behind them. (2 Chron. 13:13)
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2 Chron. 20:22• 22And when they began the song of triumph and praise, Jehovah set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who had come against Judah, and they were smitten. (2 Chron. 20:22)
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Jer. 51:12• 12Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for Jehovah hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. (Jer. 51:12)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And thou shalt do to Ai and to its king as thou didst to Jericho and to its king; only, the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof shall ye take as prey for yourselves. Set an ambush against the city behind it.

W. Kelly Translation

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And thou shalt do to Ai and to its king as thou didst to Jericho and to its king; only, the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof shall ye take as prey for yourselves. Lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)