Joshua 8:4

Joshua instructs the men to lie in ambush close behind the city and stay ready. Their hidden readiness is key to the plan.

Cross-references · 10

• Judg 20:29Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
• 1 Sam 15:5Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.
• Judg 20:33All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
• Judg 20:36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.
• Acts 23:21Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”
• Josh 8:16All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
• Judg 9:25The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them, and Abimelech was told about it.
• Eccl 9:16Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
• Eccl 7:19Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
• 1 Sam 15:2Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.