The Conquest of Ai
Joshua 8:16
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
- KJV
- And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
- WEB
- All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
- ASV
- And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
- LSV
- and 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,
- YLT
- and 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,
- DBY
- And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
- DRC
- But they shouting together, and encouraging one another, pursued them. And when they were come from the city,
- GNV
- And all the people of the citie were called together, to pursue after them: and they pursued after Ioshua, and were drawen away out of the city,
- JPS
- And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
- LXXE
- And they pursued after the children of Israel, and they themselves went to a distance from the city.
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- Written (Ketiv): בָּעִיר (“[was] in the city”). Read aloud (Qere): בָּעַ֔י (“[was] in the Ai”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
- Leningrad Codex reads בָּעַ֔יר; read aloud (Qere) reads בָּעַ֔י (“[was] in the Ai”).
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיִּזָּעֲק֗וּ כָּל־הָעָם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בעיר לִרְדֹּ֖ף אַחֲרֵיהֶ֑ם וַֽיִּרְדְּפוּ֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַ וַיִּנָּתְק֖וּ מִן־הָעִֽיר׃Read aloud as (qere): בָּעַ֔י
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ κατεδίωξαν ὀπίσω τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ· καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀπέστησαν ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως.
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- Ezekiel 38:11–22You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a tranquil people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates— in order to seize the spoil and carry off…
- Joshua 8:5–6Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them. They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they…
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