¹⁴ Now it happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the plain. But he ^(A)did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

³⁹ and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

³ By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction ^[a]does not slumber.

The Day of the Lord

5 But concerning ^(A)the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. ² For you yourselves know perfectly that ^(B)the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. ³ For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then ^(C)sudden destruction comes upon them, ^(D)as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

⁵⁰ the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is ^(A)not aware of,

³⁴ And ten thousand select men from all Israel came against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. ^(A)But ^[a]the Benjamites did not know that disaster was upon them. ³⁵ The Lord ^[b]defeated Benjamin before Israel. And the children of Israel destroyed that day twenty-five thousand one hundred Benjamites; all these drew the sword.