◄ Joshua 8:8 ►
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Good News Translation
After you have taken the city, set it on fire, just as the LORD has commanded. These are your orders."

New Revised Standard Version
And when you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire, doing as the LORD has ordered; see, I have commanded you.”

Contemporary English Version
Then set it on fire, as the LORD has told us to do. Those are your orders,

New American Bible
When you have taken the city, set it on fire in obedience to the LORD’s command. These are my orders to you.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire, and you shall do all things so as I have commanded.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire, and you shall do all things so as I have commanded.

set the city

Joshua 8:28 And he burnt the city, and made it a heap forever:

Joshua 6:24 But they burned the city, and all things that were therein; except the gold and silver, and vessels of brass and iron, which they consecrated unto the treasury of the Lord. _

See, I have

Joshua 1:9,16 Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not, and be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things whatsoever thou shalt go to. . . .

Judges 4:6 And she sent and called Barac, the Son of Abinoem, out of Cedes, in Nephthali: and she said to him: The Lord God of Israel hath commanded thee: Go, and lead an army to Mount Thabor, and thou shalt take with thee ten thousand fighting men of the children of Nephthali, and of the children of Zabulon:

2 Samuel 13:28 And Absalom had commanded his servants, saying: Take notice when Ammon shall be drunk with wine, and when I shall say to you: Strike him, and kill him, fear not: for it is I that command you: take courage, and be valiant men.

Context
The Conquest of Ai
…7And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall rise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands. 8And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire, and you shall do all things so as I have commanded.9And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of the ambush, and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city of Hai. But Joshua staid that night in the midst of the people,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:16
But of those cities that shall be given thee, thou shalt suffer none at all to live:

Joshua 8:2
And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as thou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the spoils, and all the cattle, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: lay an ambush for the city behind it.

Joshua 8:7
And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall rise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands.

Joshua 8:9
And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of the ambush, and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city of Hai. But Joshua staid that night in the midst of the people,

Joshua 8:22
And they also that had taken and set the city on fire, issuing out of the city to meet their own men, began to cut off the enemies who were surrounded by them. So that the enemies being cut off on both sides, not one of so great a multitude was saved.

Joshua 8:7
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