Yosua 8:3

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu bersiaplah Yosua beserta seluruh tentara untuk pergi ke Ai. Yosua memilih tiga puluh ribu orang, pahlawan-pahlawan yang gagah perkasa, mereka disuruhnya pergi pada waktu malam

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu bersiaplah Yosua beserta seluruh tentara untuk pergi ke Ai. Yosua memilih tiga puluh ribu orang, pahlawan-pahlawan yang gagah perkasa, mereka disuruhnya pergi pada waktu malam

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka bangkitlah Yusak berdiri dan segala orang perangpun sertanya hendak pergi ke Ai; maka dipilih Yusak akan tiga puluh ribu orang yang pahlawan, disuruhkannya pada ketika malam,

Contextual Overview

³ And so Iosuah arose, and all the men of warre, to go vp agaynst Ai: And Iosuah chose out thirtie thousande strong men and valiaunt, and sent them away by nyght: ⁴ And he commaunded them, saying: Beholde, ye shall lye in wayte agaynst the towne on the backside thereof: Go not verie farre from the citie, but be all redie: ⁵ And I, and al the people that are with me, wyll approche vnto the citie: And when they come out against vs, as they dyd at the first tyme, then wyll we flee before them: ⁶ For they wyll come out after vs tyll we haue brought them out of the citie. For they wyll say, They flee before vs, as at the first tyme: and we will flee before them. ⁷ In the meane tyme shall ye ryse vp from lying in wayte, and destroy the citie: for the Lorde your God wyll delyuer it into your hande. ⁸ And when ye haue taken the citie, ye shall set it on fire: Accordyng to the commaundement of the Lorde shall ye do. Behold, I haue charged you. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

by night: Matthew 24:39, Matthew 24:50, Matthew 25:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 2 Peter 3:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:8 - Hai Joshua 8:12 - five thousand Joshua 8:17 - a man

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the sixe hundreth yere of Noahs lyfe, in the seconde moneth, the seuenteene day of ye moneth, in the same day were all the fountaynes of the great deepe broken vp, and the wyndowes of heauen were opened.

Genesis 7:24
But the water preuayled vpon the earth, a hundreth and fiftie dayes.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai,.... As the Lord had commanded him:

and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour; out of all the men of war; these were a select company, picked men, not the whole army, as some have thought, for he was ordered to take all the people of war, as he did:

and sent them away by night; from the main army, that they might pass the city and get behind it undiscovered, for they were sent for an ambush; and of these some were to take the city, and be left in it to burn it, and some to smite the men of Ai, as Abarbinel notes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thirty thousand men - comparing Joshua 8:3 and Joshua 8:12 (“five thousand men”), there is probably a mistake in the numbers of this verse, where an early copyist may have written the sign for 30,000 instead of that for 5,000.

Sent them away by night - The selected 5,000 would accordingly post themselves in the main ravine between Ai and Bethel in the night and early morning. The neighhorhood in which Ai was situated is described as “a wild entanglement of hill and valley;” and amidst its recesses the detachment could easily shelter itself from observation until Joshua’s other measures were taken.