16and all the people who are in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua, and are drawn away out of the city,


In Context

13 and they set the people, all the camp which is on the north of the city, and its rear on the west of the city, and Joshua goeth on that night into the midst of the valley.

14 And it cometh to pass, when the king of Ai seeth it, that hasten, and rise early, and go out do the men of the city to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at the appointed season, at the front of the plain, and he hath not known that an ambush is against him, on the rear of the city.

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

16 and all the people who are in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua, and are drawn away out of the city,

17 and there hath not been left a man in Ai and Bethel who hath not gone out after Israel, and they leave the city open, and pursue after Israel.

18 And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'Stretch out with the javelin which is in thy hand towards Ai, for into thy hand I give it;' and Joshua stretcheth out with the javelin which is in his hand toward the city,

Joshua 8:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:16All the men of Ai were called to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away from the city.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:16But they shouting together, and encouraging one another, pursued them. And when they were come from the city,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them; and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue them: and they pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:16All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:16And 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.