Yosua 8:15

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Yosua dan seluruh orang Israel itu berlaku seolah-olah dipukul mundur oleh mereka, lalu melarikan diri ke arah padang gurun.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Yosua dan seluruh orang Israel itu berlaku seolah-olah dipukul mundur oleh mereka, lalu melarikan diri ke arah padang gurun.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka Yusak dan segala orang Israelpun seolah-olah alahlah di hadapannya, lalu mereka itu lari pada jalan ke padang belantara.

Contextual Overview

⁹ Iosuah therfore sent them foorth, and they went to lye in wayte, and abode betweene Bethel & Ai, on the westsyde of the citie of Ai: But Iosuah lodged that nyght among the people. ¹⁰ And Iosuah rose vp early in the mornyng, and numbred the people, & went vp, he and the elders of Israel before the people, against Ai. ¹¹ And all the men of warre that were with him, went vp, & drue nye, and came agaynst the citie, and pitched on the northsyde of Ai: and there was a valley betweene them and Ai. ¹² And he toke vpon a fiue thousande men, and set them to lye in wayte betweene Bethel and Ai, on the westsyde of the citie. ¹³ And the people set all the hoast that was on the northsyde agaynst the citie, & the lyers in wayte on the west, against the citie: And Iosuah walked the same nyght in the myddes of the valley. ¹⁴ And when the kyng of Ai sawe it, they hasted and rose vp early, and the men of the citie went out agaynst Israel to battayle, he and all his people at a tyme appoynted, euen before the playne: and wyst not that there were lyers in wayte agaynst him on the backsyde of the citie. ¹⁵ And Iosuah & all Israel as beaten before them, fledde by the way of the wildernesse. ¹⁶ And all the people of the towne were called together, to folowe after them: And they folowed after Iosuah, and were drawen away from the citie. ¹⁷ And there was not a man left in Ai and in Bethel, that went not out after Israel: And they left the citie open, and folowed after Israel.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

by the way: Joshua 18:12

Reciprocal: Joshua 16:1 - the water Judges 20:32 - Let us flee Judges 20:36 - for the men

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them,.... Or smitten, as some of them might be in the pursuit:

and fled by the way of the wilderness; not a barren desert, but, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, a place for the pasture of cattle; though perhaps it is the same with the wilderness of Bethaven,

Joshua 18:12. Epiphanius w makes mention of the wilderness of Bethel and Ephraim as near Jericho.

w Contr. Haeres. l. 1. tom. 2.