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Joshua 8:15-29

8:15

And Joshua
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and all Israel
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made as if they were beaten
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before
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them, and fled
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by the way
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of the wilderness
<04057>_.

8:16

And all the people
<05971>

that [were] in Ai
<05857> (8675) <05892>

were called
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together to pursue
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after
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them: and they pursued
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after
<0310>

Joshua
<03091>_,

and were drawn away
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from the city
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8:17

And there was not a man
<0376>

left
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in Ai
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or Bethel
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that went not out
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after
<0310>

Israel
<03478>_:

and they left
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the city
<05892>

open
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and pursued
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after Israel
<03478>_.

8:18

And the LORD
<03068>

said
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unto Joshua
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Stretch out
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the spear
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that [is] in thy hand
<03027>

toward Ai
<05857>_;

for I will give
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it into thine hand
<03027>_.

And Joshua
<03091>

stretched out
<05186> (8799)

the spear
<03591>

that [he had] in his hand
<03027>

toward the city
<05892>_.

8:19

And the ambush
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arose
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quickly
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out of their place
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and they ran
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as soon as he had stretched out
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his hand
<03027>_:

and they entered
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into the city
<05892>_,

and took
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it, and hasted
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and set
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the city
<05892>

on fire
<0784>_.

8:20

And when the men
<0582>

of Ai
<05857>

looked
<06437> (8799)

behind
<0310>

them, they saw
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and, behold, the smoke
<06227>

of the city
<05892>

ascended up
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to heaven
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and they had no power
<03027>

to flee
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this way or that way
<02008>_:

and the people
<05971>

that fled
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to the wilderness
<04057>

turned back
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upon the pursuers
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{power: Heb. hand}

8:21

And when Joshua
<03091>

and all Israel
<03478>

saw
<07200> (8804)

that the ambush
<0693> (8802)

had taken
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the city
<05892>_,

and that the smoke
<06227>

of the city
<05892>

ascended
<05927> (8804)_,

then they turned again
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and slew
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the men
<0582>

of Ai
<05857>_.

8:22

And the other
<0428>

issued out
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of the city
<05892>

against
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them; so they were in the midst
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of Israel
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some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote
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them, so that
<05704>

they let
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none of them remain
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or escape
<06412>_.

8:23

And the king
<04428>

of Ai
<05857>

they took
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alive
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and brought
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him to Joshua
<03091>_.

8:24

And it came to pass, when Israel
<03478>

had made an end
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of slaying
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all the inhabitants
<03427> (8802)

of Ai
<05857>

in the field
<07704>_,

in the wilderness
<04057>

wherein they chased
<07291> (8804)

them, and when they were all fallen
<05307> (8799)

on the edge
<06310>

of the sword
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until they were consumed
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that all the Israelites
<03478>

returned
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unto Ai
<05857>_,

and smote
<05221> (8686)

it with the edge
<06310>

of the sword
<02719>_.

8:25

And [so] it was, [that] all that fell
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that day
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both of men
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and women
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[were] twelve
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thousand
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[even] all the men
<0582>

of Ai
<05857>_.

8:26

For Joshua
<03091>

drew
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not his hand
<03027>

back
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wherewith he stretched out
<05186> (8804)

the spear
<03591>_,

until he had utterly destroyed
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all the inhabitants
<03427> (8802)

of Ai
<05857>_.

8:27

Only the cattle
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and the spoil
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of that city
<05892>

Israel
<03478>

took for a prey
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unto themselves, according unto the word
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of the LORD
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which he commanded
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Joshua
<03091>_.

8:28

And Joshua
<03091>

burnt
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Ai
<05857>_,

and made
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it an heap
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for ever
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[even] a desolation
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unto this day
<03117>_.

8:29

And the king
<04428>

of Ai
<05857>

he hanged
<08518> (8804)

on a tree
<06086>

until eventide
<06256> <06153>_:

and as soon as the sun
<08121>

was down
<0935> (8800)_,

Joshua
<03091>

commanded
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that they should take
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his carcase
<05038>

down
<03381> (8686)

from the tree
<06086>_,

and cast
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it at the entering
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of the gate
<08179>

of the city
<05892>_,

and raise
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thereon a great
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heap
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of stones
<068>_,

[that remaineth] unto this day
<03117>_.