15And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.


In Context

12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.

14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he knew not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

Joshua 8:15 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:15Joshua and all Israel let themselves be driven back before them, and they fled toward the desert.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:15And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:15But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making as if they were afraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:15And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:15And Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten before them; and they fled by the way of the wilderness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:15And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:15And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:15Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:15And Joshua and all Israel seem stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,