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Book of Joshua, Chapter 8

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Chapter 8 of Joshua—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

  1. ¶ Now the LORD said to Joshua, “1Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai; see, 2I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
  2. You shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall 3take only its spoil and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. [a]Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
  3. ¶ So Joshua rose with all the people of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night.
  4. He commanded them, saying, “See, you are 4going to ambush the city from behind [b]it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
  5. Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us as at the first, 5we will flee before them.
  6. They will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ So we will flee before them.
  7. And you shall rise from your ambush and take possession of the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
  8. Then it will be when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do it 6according to the word of the LORD. See, I have commanded you.”
  9. So Joshua sent them away, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.
  10. ¶ Now Joshua 7rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people to Ai.
  11. Then all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and arrived in front of the city, and camped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
  12. And he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between 8Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the [c]city.
  13. So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north side of the city, and its rear guard on the west side of the city, and Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley.
  14. It came about when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
  15. Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them, and fled 9by the way of the wilderness.
  16. And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and 10were drawn away from the city.
  17. So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they left the city [d]unguarded and pursued Israel.
  18. ¶ Then the LORD said to Joshua, “11Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” So Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
  19. The men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it, and they quickly set the city on fire.
  20. When the men of Ai turned [e]back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.
  21. When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and [f]slew the men of Ai.
  22. [g]The others came out from the city to encounter them, so that they were trapped in the midst of Israel, [h]some on this side and some on that side; and they [i]slew them until 12no one was left [j]of those who survived or escaped.
  23. But they took alive the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
  24. ¶ Now when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
  25. 13All who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000—all the [k]people of Ai.
  26. For Joshua 14did not withdraw his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had [l]utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
  27. 15Israel took only the cattle and the spoil of that city as plunder for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which He had commanded Joshua.
  28. So Joshua burned Ai and made it 16a heap forever, a desolation until this day.
  29. 17He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave command and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to this day.
  30. ¶ Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, in 18Mount Ebal,
  31. just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, 19an altar of uncut stones on which no man had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
  32. He 20wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which [m]he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel.
  33. 21All Israel with their elders and officers and their judges were standing on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as the native. Half of them stood in front of 22Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had given command at first to bless the people of Israel.
  34. Then afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in 23the book of the law.
  35. There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel 24with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were [n]living among them.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Lit Set for yourself
  2. ^ Lit the city
  3. ^ I.e. Ai
  4. ^ Lit open
  5. ^ Lit behind them
  6. ^ Lit smote
  7. ^ Lit These came
  8. ^ Lit these...those
  9. ^ Lit smote
  10. ^ Lit for it
  11. ^ Lit men
  12. ^ Or put under the ban
  13. ^ I.e. Moses
  14. ^ Lit walking

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Jos 1:9; 10:8
  2. ^ Jos 6:2
  3. ^ De 20:14; Jos 8:27
  4. ^ Jg 20:29
  5. ^ Jg 20:32
  6. ^ De 20:16-18; Jos 8:2
  7. ^ Ge 22:3
  8. ^ Ge 12:8; 28:19; Jg 1:22
  9. ^ Jos 15:61; 16:1; 18:12
  10. ^ Jg 20:31
  11. ^ Ex 14:16; 17:9-13; Jos 8:26
  12. ^ Jos 8:8
  13. ^ De 20:16-18
  14. ^ Ex 17:11, 12
  15. ^ Jos 8:2
  16. ^ De 13:16
  17. ^ De 21:22, 23
  18. ^ De 27:2-8
  19. ^ Ex 20:25
  20. ^ De 27:2, 3, 8
  21. ^ De 27:11-14
  22. ^ De 11:29
  23. ^ Jos 1:8
  24. ^ Ex 12:38; De 31:12; Zc 8:23

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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