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Joshua 8:2
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Joshua 8:2
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2 You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder(A) and livestock for yourselves.(B) Set an ambush(C) behind the city.”
Deuteronomy 20:14
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Deuteronomy 20:14
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14 As for the women, the children, the livestock(A) and everything else in the city,(B) you may take these as plunder(C) for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the Lord your God gives you from your enemies.
Proverbs 13:22
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Proverbs 13:22
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22 A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children,
but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous.(A)
2 Chronicles 20:22
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2 Chronicles 20:22
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22 As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes(A) against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.
Joshua 6:21
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Joshua 6:21
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21 They devoted(A) the city to the Lord and destroyed(B) with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
Luke 12:20-21
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Luke 12:20-21
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20 “But God said to him, ‘You fool!(A) This very night your life will be demanded from you.(B) Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’(C)
21 “This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”(D)
Jeremiah 51:12
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Jeremiah 51:12
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Jeremiah 17:11
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Jeremiah 17:11
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11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay
are those who gain riches by unjust means.
When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them,
and in the end they will prove to be fools.(A)
Proverbs 28:20
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Proverbs 28:20
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20 A faithful person will be richly blessed,
but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.(A)
Psalm 39:6
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Psalm 39:6
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2 Chronicles 13:13
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2 Chronicles 13:13
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13 Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah the ambush(A) was behind them.
Judges 20:29-33
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Judges 20:29-33
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29 Then Israel set an ambush(A) around Gibeah. 30 They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before. 31 The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away(B) from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads—the one leading to Bethel(C) and the other to Gibeah. 32 While the Benjamites were saying, “We are defeating them as before,”(D) the Israelites were saying, “Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.”
33 All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place(E) on the west[a] of Gibeah.[b]
Footnotes
- Judges 20:33 Some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Judges 20:33 Hebrew Geba, a variant of Gibeah
Joshua 10:28
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Joshua 10:28
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Southern Cities Conquered
28 That day Joshua took Makkedah. He put the city and its king to the sword and totally destroyed everyone in it. He left no survivors.(A) And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.(B)
Joshua 10:1
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Joshua 10:1
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The Sun Stands Still
10 Now Adoni-Zedek(A) king of Jerusalem(B) heard that Joshua had taken Ai(C) and totally destroyed[a](D) it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon(E) had made a treaty of peace(F) with Israel and had become their allies.
Footnotes
- Joshua 10:1 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 28, 35, 37, 39 and 40.
Joshua 8:27-29
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Joshua 8:27-29
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27 But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the Lord had instructed Joshua.(A)
28 So Joshua burned(B) Ai[a](C) and made it a permanent heap of ruins,(D) a desolate place to this day.(E) 29 He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset,(F) Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks(G) over it, which remains to this day.
Footnotes
- Joshua 8:28 Ai means the ruin.
Joshua 8:24
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Joshua 8:24
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24 When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it.
Joshua 8:19
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Joshua 8:19
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19 As soon as he did this, the men in the ambush rose quickly(A) from their position and rushed forward. They entered the city and captured it and quickly set it on fire.(B)
Joshua 8:14
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Joshua 8:14
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14 When the king of Ai saw this, he and all the men of the city hurried out early in the morning to meet Israel in battle at a certain place overlooking the Arabah.(A) But he did not know(B) that an ambush had been set against him behind the city.
Joshua 8:12
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Joshua 8:12
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12 Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
Joshua 8:9
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Joshua 8:9
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9 Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush(A) and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai—but Joshua spent that night with the people.
Joshua 8:7
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Joshua 8:7
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7 you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand.(A)
Deuteronomy 3:2
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Deuteronomy 3:2
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2 The Lord said to me, “Do not be afraid(A) of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”
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