Joshua 8:2
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2 You will destroy them as you destroyed Jericho and its king. But this time you may keep the plunder and the livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the town.”
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Deuteronomy 20:14
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14 But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the plunder from your enemies that the Lord your God has given you.
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Proverbs 13:22
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22 Good people leave an inheritance to their grandchildren,
but the sinner’s wealth passes to the godly.
2 Chronicles 20:22
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22 At the very moment they began to sing and give praise, the Lord caused the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir to start fighting among themselves.
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Joshua 6:21
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21 They completely destroyed everything in it with their swords—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, goats, and donkeys.
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Luke 12:20-21
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20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’
21 “Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”
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Jeremiah 51:12
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12 Raise the battle flag against Babylon!
Reinforce the guard and station the watchmen.
Prepare an ambush,
for the Lord will fulfill all his plans against Babylon.
Jeremiah 17:11
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Jeremiah’s Trust in the Lord
11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid,
so are those who get their wealth by unjust means.
At midlife they will lose their riches;
in the end, they will become poor old fools.
Proverbs 28:20
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20 The trustworthy person will get a rich reward,
but a person who wants quick riches will get into trouble.
Psalm 39:6
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6 We are merely moving shadows,
and all our busy rushing ends in nothing.
We heap up wealth,
not knowing who will spend it.
Job 27:16-17
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16 “Evil people may have piles of money
and may store away mounds of clothing.
17 But the righteous will wear that clothing,
and the innocent will divide that money.
2 Chronicles 13:13
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13 Meanwhile, Jeroboam had secretly sent part of his army around behind the men of Judah to ambush them.
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Judges 20:29-33
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29 So the Israelites set an ambush all around Gibeah. 30 They went out on the third day and took their positions at the same place as before. 31 When the men of Benjamin came out to attack, they were drawn away from the town. And as they had done before, they began to kill the Israelites. About thirty Israelites died in the open fields and along the roads, one leading to Bethel and the other leading back to Gibeah.
32 Then the warriors of Benjamin shouted, “We’re defeating them as we did before!” But the Israelites had planned in advance to run away so that the men of Benjamin would chase them along the roads and be drawn away from the town.
33 When the main group of Israelite warriors reached Baal-tamar, they turned and took up their positions. Meanwhile, the Israelites hiding in ambush to the west[a] of Gibeah jumped up to fight.
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- 20:33 As in Greek and Syriac versions and Latin Vulgate; Hebrew reads hiding in the open space.
Joshua 10:28
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Israel Destroys the Southern Towns
28 That same day Joshua captured and destroyed the town of Makkedah. He killed everyone in it, including the king, leaving no survivors. He destroyed them all, and he killed the king of Makkedah as he had killed the king of Jericho.
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Joshua 10:1
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Israel Defeats the Southern Armies
10 Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured and completely destroyed[a] Ai and killed its king, just as he had destroyed the town of Jericho and killed its king. He also learned that the Gibeonites had made peace with Israel and were now their allies.
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Joshua 8:27-29
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27 Only the livestock and the treasures of the town were not destroyed, for the Israelites kept these as plunder for themselves, as the Lord had commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned the town of Ai,[a] and it became a permanent mound of ruins, desolate to this very day.
29 Joshua impaled the king of Ai on a sharpened pole and left him there until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body, as Joshua commanded, and threw it in front of the town gate. They piled a great heap of stones over him that can still be seen today.
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- 8:28 Ai means “ruin.”
Joshua 8:24
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24 When the Israelite army finished chasing and killing all the men of Ai in the open fields, they went back and finished off everyone inside.
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Joshua 8:19
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19 As soon as Joshua gave this signal, all the men in ambush jumped up from their position and poured into the town. They quickly captured it and set it on fire.
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Joshua 8:14
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14 When the king of Ai saw the Israelites across the valley, he and all his army hurried out early in the morning and attacked the Israelites at a place overlooking the Jordan Valley.[a] But he didn’t realize there was an ambush behind the town.
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- 8:14 Hebrew the Arabah.
Joshua 8:12
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12 That night Joshua sent about 5,000 men to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the town.
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Joshua 8:9
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9 So they left and went to the place of ambush between Bethel and the west side of Ai. But Joshua remained among the people in the camp that night.
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Joshua 8:7
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7 you will jump up from your ambush and take possession of the town, for the Lord your God will give it to you.
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Deuteronomy 3:2
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2 But the Lord told me, ‘Do not be afraid of him, for I have given you victory over Og and his entire army, and I will give you all his land. Treat him just as you treated King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon.’
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