约书亚记 8:21

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

約書亞和以色列人看見伏兵已經奪取了城，又看見城中濃煙上升，就轉回，擊殺艾城的人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
约 书 亚 和 以 色 列 众 人 见 伏 兵 已 经 夺 了 城 ， 城 中 烟 气 飞 腾 ， 就 转 身 回 去 ， 击 杀 艾 城 的 人 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Hold your spear toward Ai, because I will give you that city." So Joshua held his spear toward the city of Ai. ¹⁹ When the Israelites who were in ambush saw this, they quickly came out of their hiding place and hurried toward the city. They entered the city, took control of it, and quickly set it on fire. ²⁰ When the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke rising from their city. At the same time the Israelites stopped running and turned against the men of Ai, who could not escape in any direction. ²¹ When Joshua and all his men saw that the army had taken control of the city and saw the smoke rising from it, they stopped running and turned to fight the men of Ai. ²² The men who were in ambush also came out of the city to help with the fight. So the men of Ai were caught between the armies of Israel. None of the enemy escaped. The Israelites fought until not one of the men of Ai was left alive, except

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Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 10:9 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.

Genesis 4:12
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."

Genesis 5:29
Lamech named his son Noah and said, "He will comfort us in our work, which comes from the ground the Lord has cursed."

Genesis 6:5
The Lord saw that the human beings on the earth were very wicked and that everything they thought about was evil.

Genesis 6:17
I will bring a flood of water on the earth to destroy all living things that live under the sky, including everything that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will die.

Genesis 8:1
But God remembered Noah and all the wild and tame animals with him in the boat. He made a wind blow over the earth, and the water went down.

Genesis 8:2
The underground springs stopped flowing, and the clouds in the sky stopped pouring down rain.

Genesis 8:3
The water that covered the earth began to go down. After one hundred fifty days it had gone down so much that the boat touched land again. It came to rest on one of the mountains of Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month.

Genesis 8:6
Forty days later Noah opened the window he had made in the boat, and

Genesis 8:7
he sent out a raven. It flew here and there until the water had dried up from the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when Joshua,.... Or "for Joshua" z:

and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city; which they knew by the smoke, as follows:

and that the smoke of the city ascended; in large columns, which sufficiently indicated that the whole city was taken and fired by the ambush:

then, or, "and",

they turned again and slew the men of Ai; great numbers of them.

z ויהושע "et enim Josua", Junius Tremellius, Piscator so Masius.