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Joshua 8:7 KJV
Joshua · chapter 8 · verse 7
Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.Joshua 8:7 · King James Version
Joshua 8:7 in context
5And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
6(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
7Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
8And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
9Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- delivernâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- ambushʼârabto lurkH693 →
- seizeyârashto occupyH3423 →
- cityʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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We have here an account of the taking of Ai by stratagem. The stratagem here used, we are sure, was lawful and good; God himself appointed it, and we have no reason to think but that the like is lawful and good in other wars. Here was no league broken, no treaty of peace, that the advantage was gained;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-22