Trouvé 4121 Résultats pour: People Of Israel
then, getting up early next morning, reviewed the people and, with the elders of Israel, marched on Ai at their head. (Joshua 8, 10)
The people pitched the main camp to the north of the town and set up its ambush to the west of the town. Joshua went that night into the middle of the plain. (Joshua 8, 13)
The king of Ai had seen this; the people of the town got up early and hurried out, so that he and all his people could engage Israel in battle on the slope facing the Arabah; but he did not know that an ambush had been laid for him to the rear of the town. (Joshua 8, 14)
Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten by them and took to their heels along the road to the desert. (Joshua 8, 15)
All the people in the town joined in the pursuit and, in pursuing Joshua, were drawn away from the town. (Joshua 8, 16)
Not a man was left in Ai (nor in Bethel), who had not gone in pursuit of Israel; and in pursuing Israel they left the town undefended. (Joshua 8, 17)
When the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke rising from the town into the sky. None of them had the courage to run in any direction, for the people fleeing towards the desert turned back on their pursuers. (Joshua 8, 20)
For, once Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been seized by the men in ambush, and that smoke was rising from the town, they turned about and attacked the men of Ai. (Joshua 8, 21)
When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open ground, and in the desert where they had pursued them, and when every single one had fallen to the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and slaughtered its remaining population. (Joshua 8, 24)
The number of those who fell that day, men and women together, was twelve thousand, all people of Ai. (Joshua 8, 25)
For booty, Israel took only the cattle and the spoils of this town, in accordance with the order that Yahweh had given to Joshua. (Joshua 8, 27)
Joshua then built an altar to Yahweh, God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, (Joshua 8, 30)
