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They’ll come after us until we’ve drawn them away from the city, because they’ll say, ‘They’re running away from us just like they did before.’ While we’re running away from them, you get up from the ambush and seize the city, because the Lord your God will give it into your control. When you’ve taken the city, set it on fire, just as the Lord ordered. Look! These are your orders!”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:8 Lit. Look! I have commanded you!

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, you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand.(A) When you have taken the city, set it on fire.(B) Do what the Lord has commanded.(C) See to it; you have my orders.”

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