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BrLXXΚαὶ ὡς ἂν ἐξέλθωσιν ὀπίσω ἡμῶν, ἀποσπάσομεν αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως· καὶ ἐροῦσι, φεύγουσιν οὗτοι ἀπὸ προσώπου ἡμῶν, ὃν τρόπον καὶ ἔμπροσθεν. (Kai hōs an exelthōsin opisō haʸmōn, apospasomen autous apo taʸs poleōs; kai erousi, feugousin houtoi apo prosōpou haʸmōn, hon tropon kai emprosthen. )
BrTrAnd when they shall come out after us, we will draw them away from the city; and they will say, These men flee from before us, as also before.
ULTAnd they will come out after us until we have drawn them from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing before our face just as at the first.’ And we will flee before their face.
USTThey will think that we are running away from them like we did before. So they will chase us away from the city. While we are running away from them,
BSBThey will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,
WEBBEThey will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,
NETThey will attack us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say, ‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.
LSVand they have come out after us until we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,
FBVThey'll chase after us as we draw them away from the town, because they'll say to each other, ‘They're running away from us just like before.’
T4TThey will think that we are running away from them like we did before. So they will chase us away from the city. While we are running away,
LEBThey will come out after us until we draw them away from the city, because they will think, ‘They are fleeing from us[fn] as before.’[fn] So we will flee from them.[fn]
BBEAnd they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;
Moffand when they issue against us, as before, we will run off, till we draw them away from the town,for they will think we are running from them as before. Then,
JPSAnd they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say: They flee before us, as at the first; so we will flee before them.
ASVand they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;
DRATill they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city: for they will think that we flee as before.
YLTand they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,
DrbyAnd 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; and we will flee before them.
RVand they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first; so we will flee before them:
Wbstr(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.
KJB-1769(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.[fn]
KJB-1611[fn](For they will come out after vs) till we haue drawen them from the citie; for they will say, They flee before vs, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them. ((For they will come out after us) till we have drawen them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.)
BshpsFor they wyll come out after vs tyll we haue brought them out of the citie. For they wyll say, They flee before vs, as at the first tyme: and we will flee before them. (For they will come out after us till we have brought them out of the city. For they will say, They flee before us, as at the first time: and we will flee before them.)
GnvaFor they wil come out after vs, till we haue brought them out of the citie: for they will say, They flee before vs as at the first time: so we will flee before them. (For they will come out after us, till we have brought them out of the city: for they will say, They flee before us as at the first time: so we will flee before them. )
Cvdlthat they maye folowe out after vs, tyll we haue prouoked them forth of the cite: for they shal thinke that we flye before them, like as at ye first. (that they may follow out after us, till we have provoked them forth of the city: for they shall thinke that we flee before them, like as at ye/you_all first.)
Wycltil thei pursuen, and ben drawun away ferthir fro the citee; for thei schulen gesse, that we schulen fle as bifore. (til they pursuen, and been drawun away ferthir from the city; for they should gesse, that we should flee as before.)
Luthdaß sie uns nachfolgen heraus, bis daß wir sie heraus von der Stadt reißen. Denn sie werden gedenken, wir fliehen vor ihnen wie vorhin. Und weil wir vor ihnen fliehen, (daß they/she/them us/to_us/ourselves nachfolgen heraus, until that we/us they/she/them heraus from the/of_the city reißen. Because they/she/them become gedenken, we/us fliehen before/in_front_of to_them like vorhin. And because we/us before/in_front_of to_them fliehen,)
ClVgdonec persequentes ab urbe longius protrahantur: putabunt enim nos fugere sicut prius. (until persequentes away city longius protrahantur: they_will_think because we fugere like first/before. )
8:1-13 The first attempt to conquer Ai had been done without consulting God; the second attempt would be made at God’s command and direction. Before the second attempt, God spoke to Joshua again and gave him a strategy. More importantly, in light of Israel’s recent disaster, God gave him encouragement and a promise.
(Some words not found in UHB: and,come_out after,us until drawn_~_away,we DOM,them from/more_than the=city that/for/because/then/when say fleeing before,face/front,us just=as in/on/at/with,first and,flee before,face/front,them )
If it would be clearer in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation. Alternate translation: “For they will say that we are fleeing to their faces, just as at the first”
[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.
