42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in (A)the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.

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From (A)the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel;
    there they have continued.
    Shall not the war against the unjust[a] overtake them in Gibeah?

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:9 Hebrew the children of injustice

(A)They have deeply corrupted themselves
    as (B)in the days of Gibeah:
(C)he will remember their iniquity;
    he will punish their sins.

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(A)Judah has gone into exile because of affliction[a]
    and hard servitude;
(B)she dwells now among the nations,
    (C)but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
    in the midst of her distress.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:3 Or under affliction
  2. Lamentations 1:3 Or in the narrow passes

24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword.

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15 And Joshua and all Israel (A)pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.

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