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Giosuè 8:3

Cos Giosu e tutti gli uomini di guerra si levarono per salire contro Ai. Egli scelse trentamila uomini, guerrieri valorosi, e li fece partire di notte,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ambush;   Armies;   Strategy;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies of Israel, the;   Cities;   Sieges;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ai;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bethel;   Joshua, the Book of;   Night March;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ai;   Israel;   Joshua;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ai, Hai ;   Ambush, Ambushment;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ai;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Army;   Choose;   Egypt;   War;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ai;  

Parallel Translations

Riveduta Bibbia
Giosuè dunque con tutta la gente di guerra si levò per salire contro ad Ai. Egli scelse trentamila uomini valenti e prodi, li fe’ partire di notte, e diede loro quest’ordine:
Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
Giosuè adunque, e tutta la gente di guerra, si levò per salire contro ad Ai; e Giosuè scelse trentamila uomini, valenti e prodi, e li mandò innanzi di notte.

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

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.


 
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