Joshua 8:16
And all the people in Ai came together to go after them; and they went after Joshua, moving away from the town.
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Joshua 8:16
And all the people in Ai came together to go after them; and they went after Joshua, moving away from the town.
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Exodus 14:3
And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.
Exodus 14:4
And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And they did so.
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Joshua 8:4
And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up your position secretly at the back of the town: do not go very far away, and let all of you be ready:
Judges 9:25
And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.
Judges 20:29
So Israel put men secretly all round Gibeah to make a surprise attack on it.
1 Samuel 15:2
The Lord of armies says, I will give punishment to Amalek for what he did to Israel, fighting against him on the way when Israel came out of Egypt.
1 Samuel 15:5
And Saul came to the town of Amalek, and took up his position in the valley secretly.
Acts 23:21
But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath not to take food or drink till they have put him to death: and now they are ready, waiting for your order.
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Joshua 8:6
And 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;
Ezekiel 38:11
And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors:
Ezekiel 38:12
To take their property by force and go off with their goods; turning your hand against the waste places which now are peopled, and against the people who have been got together out of the nations, who have got cattle and goods for themselves, who are living in the middle of the earth.
Ezekiel 38:13
Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth?
Ezekiel 38:14
For this cause, son of man, be a prophet and say to Gog, These are the words of the Lord: In that day, when my people Israel are living without fear of danger, will you not be moved against them?
Ezekiel 38:15
And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army:
Ezekiel 38:16
And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.
Ezekiel 38:17
This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them.
Ezekiel 38:18
And it will come about in that day, when Gog comes up against the land of Israel, says the Lord, that my wrath will come up, and my passion and my bitter feeling.
Ezekiel 38:19
For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
Ezekiel 38:20
So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.
Ezekiel 38:21
And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother.
Ezekiel 38:22
And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning.
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Joshua 8:18
And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into your hands. So Joshua took up his spear, stretching it out in the direction of the town.
Joshua 8:19
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.
Joshua 8:20
Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.
Joshua 8:21
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been taken by the surprise attack, and that the smoke of the town had gone up, turning round they overcame the men of Ai.
Joshua 8:22
Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this side and on that: and Israel overcame them and let not one of them get away with his life.
Joshua 8:23
But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.
Joshua 8:25
On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and women, all the people of Ai.
Joshua 8:26
For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.
Joshua 8:27
But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.
Joshua 8:28
So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.
Joshua 8:29
And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there to this day.
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Judges 20:32
And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Israel said, Let us go in flight and get them away from the town, into the highways.
Jeremiah 51:12
Let the flag be lifted up against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, put the watchmen in their places, make ready a surprise attack: for it is the Lord's purpose, and he has done what he said about the people of Babylon.
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Judges 20:34
And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent; but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.
Judges 20:35
Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.
Judges 20:37
And the watchers, rushing on Gibeah and overrunning it, put all the town to the sword without mercy.
Judges 20:38
Now the sign fixed between the men of Israel and those making the surprise attack was that when they made a pillar of smoke go up from the town,
Judges 20:39
The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death about thirty of the men of Israel, and were saying, Certainly they are falling back before us as in the first fight.
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Judges 1:16
Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;
Song of Solomon 3:6
Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?
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Jeremiah 6:29
The blower is blowing strongly, the lead is burned away in the fire: they go on heating the metal to no purpose, for the evil-doers are not taken away.
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Revelation 16:14
For they are evil spirits, working signs; who go out even to the kings of all the earth, to get them together to the war of the great day of God, the Ruler of all.
Revelation 19:19
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, come together to make war against him who was seated on the horse and against his army.
Revelation 19:20
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.
Revelation 19:21
And the rest were put to death with the sword of him who was on the horse, even the sword which came out of his mouth: and all the birds were made full with their flesh.
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