JOS 8:19 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) When the warriors in the ambush saw that, they rushed out from their place and entered the city and captured it, and quickly set it on fire.

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BrLXX καὶ τὰ ἔνεδρα ἐξανέστησαν ἐν τάχει ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐξήλθοσαν ὅτε ἐξέτεινε τὴν χεῖρα, καὶ εἰσήλθοσαν καὶτὴν πόλιν, καὶ κατελάβοντο αὐτήν· καὶ σπεύσαντες ἐνέπρησαν τὴν πόλιν ἐν πυρί.
(kai ta enedra exanestaʸsan en taⱪei ek tou topou autōn; kai exaʸlthosan hote exeteine taʸn ⱪeira, kai eisaʸlthosan kaitaʸn polin, kai katelabonto autaʸn; kai speusantes enepraʸsan taʸn polin en puri. )

BrTr And Joshua stretched out his hand and his spear toward the city, and the ambuscade rose up quickly out of their place; and they came forth when he stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and [fn]burnt the city with fire.

ULT And the ambush rose quickly from its place and they ran when he stretched out his hand. And they entered the city and captured it and hurried and kindled the city with fire.

UST When the Israelite men who were hiding saw that, they rushed out from the places where they were hiding and ran into the city. They captured it and quickly set it on fire.

BSB and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

OEB No OEB JOS 8:19 verse available

WEBBE The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and entered into the city and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET When he held out his hand, the men waiting in ambush rose up quickly from their place and attacked. They entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

LSV and the ambush has risen [with] haste, out of its place, and they run at the stretching out of his hand, and go into the city, and capture it, and hurry, and burn the city with fire.

FBV As soon as they saw this signal the men lying in ambush got up and rushed into the town. They captured it, and quickly set it on fire.

T4T When the Israeli men who were hiding saw that, they rushed out from the places where they were hiding and ran into the city. They quickly captured it and set it on fire.

LEB The moment he stretched out his hand, those in the ambush stood up quickly from their place and ran. And they went into the city and captured it, quickly setting the city ablaze with fire.

BBE Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.

Moff In the morning the townsmen rose and marched out to fight Israel. They beat Joshua and all Israel, who fled in the direction of the desert; 16 all the townsmen of Ai were called out to pursue them, and in their pursuit of Joshua they left the town unguarded. Then said the Eternal to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin in your hand towards Ai, for I put Ai in your power.” And as soon as Joshua stretched out the javelin 19 towards the town, the men in ambush rushed into the town and captured it, while the Israelites who were flying towards the desert turned upon their pursuers, seeing that the men in ambush had captured the town. When the Israelites and Joshua had finished slaughtering the townsmen of Ai who had run into the desert and when they had cut them down, giving no quarter, all Israel then returned to Ai and sacked it. All the folk of Ai fell that day, both men and women, twelve thousand in all; Joshua never withdrew the hand that held his javelin until he had massacred all the folk of Ai. Only the Israelites took the spoils and cattle of the town for themselves, as the Eternal had given orders to Joshua. Ai itself Joshua burned, and made it a heap of ruins; to this day it lies desolate. When the king of Ai saw this, he and his men made an early start; not knowing that an ambush had been laid behind the town they allowed themselves to be drawn away from the town, till not a man was left in Ai who did not go out after Israel. The men in ambush then came out quickly and hurried to set the town on fire, so that when the men of Ai turned round to look, there was smoke rising from the town! They had no chance to flee this way or that, for the pursued turned upon the pursuers when they saw the smoke rising from the town, and the men in ambush rushed from the town to join them, so that the men of Ai were caught between Israelites, some on one side and some on the other; they were slaughtered till not a soul escaped or remained alive. The king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua, who hung him on a tree till evening; at sunset Joshua ordered his body to be taken down from the tree and thrown down at the entrance to the town-gate. They raised a cairn of stones over it, which is there to this day.

JPS And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hastened and set the city on fire.

ASV And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and set the city on fire.

DRA And when he had lifted up his shield towards the city, the ambush that lay hid, rose up immediately: and going to the city, took it and set it on fire.

YLT and the ambush hath risen [with] haste, out of its place, and they run at the stretching out of his hand, and go into the city, and capture it, and hasten, and burn the city with fire.

Drby And the ambush arose quickly from their place, and they ran when he stretched out his hand, and came into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.

RV And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and set the city on fire.

Wbstr And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted, and set the city on fire.

KJB-1769 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.

KJB-1611 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ranne as soone as he had stretched out his hand: and they entred into the city, and tooke it, and hasted, and set the citie on fire.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And the lyers in waite arose quickly out of their place, and ran assoone as Iosuah had stretched out his hande: and they entred into the citie, and toke it, and hasted, and set the citie on fyre.
(And the liers in wait arose quickly out of their place, and ran as soon as Yoshua had stretched out his hande: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted, and set the city on fyre.)

Gnva And they that lay in wait, arose quickly out of their place, and ranne as soone as he had stretched out his hand, and they entred into the citie, and tooke it, and hasted, and set the citie on fire.
(And they that lay in wait, arose quickly out of their place, and ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted, and set the city on fire. )

Cvdl ye hinder watch brake vp out of their place, and ranne (whan he had stretched out his hande) and came in to the cite, and wanne it, and made haist, & set fyre vpon it.
(ye hinder watch brake up out of their place, and ran (whan he had stretched out his hande) and came in to the city, and wanne it, and made haist, and set fire upon it.)

Wycl And whanne he hadde reisid the scheld ayens the citee, buyschementis, that weren hid, riseden anoon; and thei yeden to the citee, and token, and brenten it.
(And when he had reisid the scheld against the city, buyschementis, that were hid, riseden anoon; and they went to the city, and token, and burntn it.)

Luth da brach der Hinterhalt auf eilend aus seinem Ort, und liefen, nachdem er seine Hand ausstreckte, und kamen in die Stadt und gewannen sie; und eileten und steckten sie mit Feuer an.
(da brach the/of_the Hinterhalt on rushing out_of his place, and liefen, after he his hand ausstreckte, and came in the city and gewannen sie; and eileten and steckten they/she/them with fire an.)

ClVg Cumque elevasset clypeum ex adverso civitatis, insidiæ, quæ latebant, surrexerunt confestim: et pergentes ad civitatem, ceperunt, et succenderunt eam.
(Cumque elevasset clypeum from on_the_contrary of_the_city, insidiæ, which latebant, surrexerunt confestim: and pergentes to civitatem, ceperunt, and succenderunt eam. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-collectivenouns

וְ⁠הָ⁠אוֹרֵ֡ב קָם֩ מְהֵרָ֨ה מִ⁠מְּקוֹמ֤⁠וֹ וַ⁠יָּר֨וּצוּ֙

and,the,in_the_ambush rose quickly (Some words not found in UHB: and,the,in_the_ambush rose quickly from,place,their and,ran as_soon_as,stretched_out his/its=hand and=they_came the=city and,captured,it and,quickly and,setting_~_ablaze DOM the=city in/on/at/with,fire )

The word ambush is a singular noun that refers to a group of people acting together. That is why the pronoun they is plural. If your language does not use singular nouns in this way, you could describe this ambush as a group. Alternate translation: “And the Israelite soldiers who were hiding themselves rose quickly from their place, and they ran”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys

וַֽ⁠יְמַהֲר֔וּ וַ⁠יַּצִּ֥יתוּ

and,quickly and,setting_~_ablaze

This phrase expresses a single idea by using two words connected with and. The word hurried tells in what way the soldiers from the ambush burned the city. Alternate translation: “and they hurriedly burned”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicitinfo

וַ⁠יַּצִּ֥יתוּ אֶת־ הָ⁠עִ֖יר בָּ⁠אֵֽשׁ

and,setting_~_ablaze DOM the=city in/on/at/with,fire

See how you translated the same expression in 8:8. Alternate translation: “and they set the city on fire”

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The Israelites Conquer Ai

Joshua 8

[Author’s note: This map and article assume that Ai was located at Khirbet al-Maqatir and Bethel was located at al-Bira. It is beyond the scope of this article to present all the convincing reasons for these assumptions, but they are well summarized in the following articles: “Traditional Site of Bethel Questioned,” “Location of Biblical Bethel and Ai Reconsidered,” and “The Khirbet el-Maqatir Excavations.” The expected locations for Roman mile markers are also included on this map, which confirm that al-Bira is located precisely at the twelfth mile marker from Jerusalem, as Eusebius and Jerome both asserted. All other maps in this Atlas have been recently updated to use these same locations for Ai and Bethel.

Soon after the Israelites entered the Promised Land and captured the city of Jericho, they sent a force of only three thousand men to capture the much smaller fortified town of Ai (Joshua 7). They suffered defeat, however, and the Lord revealed to them that this happened because a man named Achan had taken some of the devoted items from Jericho. So Joshua took Achan and his family to the Valley of Achor and executed them there (see Israel Enters the Promised Land map). Later the Lord told Joshua to attack Ai again, because this time he was going to give them the town. It appears that Ai, which had a direct line of sight to the more powerful city of Jerusalem to the south, must have served as a sort of early warning outpost for the larger city. Thus, capturing Ai was critical to staging an effective battle campaign throughout southern Canaan. So Joshua advanced with thirty thousand troops during the night and camped north of the city, and he positioned a force of five thousand men in ambush between Bethel and Ai, just to the west of Ai. The men in ambush were also just east of the mountain where Abraham had pitched his tent centuries earlier (Genesis 12:8). Joshua himself spent the night in the valley between Ai and the main Israelite camp. Early the next morning, the king of Ai led all the inhabitants of the town in an attack on the main camp of the Israelites, who feigned retreat into the wilderness. After the Israelite army had drawn the people of Ai away from the town, the Israelites hiding in ambush rose up and captured Ai. They set the town on fire, sending a signal to the the main army of Israelites to turn back upon the forces of Ai. The Israelites completely destroyed the people of Ai and reduced the town to a burning heap of ruins.

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