7you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand.


In Context

4 with these orders: "Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don't go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.

5 I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them.

6 They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, 'They are running away from us as they did before.' So when we flee from them,

7 you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand.

8 When you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do what the Lord has commanded. See to it; you have my orders."

9 Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai-but Joshua spent that night with the people.

Joshua 8:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:7And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall arise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into our hands.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:7and ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7And ye shall rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city; and Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:7and ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7Then ye shall rise from the ambush and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand,

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:7and ye rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and Jehovah your God hath given it into your hand;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:7Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize on the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.