The Fall of Jericho

¹³ Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man^(A) standing in front of him with a drawn sword^(B) in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

² Abraham looked up^(A) and saw three men^(B) standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.^(C)

²³ When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with a drawn sword^(A) in his hand, it turned off the road into a field. Balaam beat it^(B) to get it back on the road.

³¹ Then the Lord opened Balaam’s eyes,^(A) and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the road with his sword drawn. So he bowed low and fell facedown.

³⁰ But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

⁵ I looked up^(A) and there before me was a man dressed in linen,^(B) with a belt of fine gold^(C) from Uphaz around his waist.

²³ My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites,^(A) and I will wipe them out.

¹⁰ They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white^(A) stood beside them.