Cross references

Joshua 8:2

And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”

Joshua 8:2 BSB

Joshua 8:2 has 22 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 20:14 (8 votes) and Joshua 6:21 (5 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Numbers 31 to Luke 12.

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Which verses does Joshua 8:2 point to?

The 20 strongest of 22, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

  2. With the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

  3. The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.

  4. A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.

  5. But the LORD said to me, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

  6. Joshua 8:72 votes

    you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

  7. Joshua 8:92 votes

    So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.

  8. Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

  9. When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.

  10. 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.

  11. When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.

  12. Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua. So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day. …

  13. On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

  14. Psalm 39:62 votes

Which verses point to Joshua 8:2?

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