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Joshua 8:17
There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

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Genesis 35:3
Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

Genesis 35:15
Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

Genesis 35:16
They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

Joshua 18:22
Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Nehemiah 7:32
The men of Bethel and Ai: one hundred twenty-three.

Nehemiah 11:31
The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,

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Deuteronomy 2:30
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

Joshua 8:3
So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

Joshua 11:20
For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

Isaiah 19:12
Where then are your wise men? Let them tell you now; and let them know what Yahweh of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt.

Isaiah 19:13
The princes of Zoan have become fools. The princes of Memphis are deceived. They have caused Egypt to go astray, those who are the cornerstone of her tribes.

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Joshua 8:14
When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Joshua 8:15
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

Joshua 8:18
Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

Joshua 8:19
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.

Joshua 8:20
When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

Joshua 8:21
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned back and killed the men of Ai.

Joshua 8:22
The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

Joshua 8:23
They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

Joshua 8:26
For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

Joshua 8:27
Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.

Joshua 8:28
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

Judges 20:36
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.

Nehemiah 9:15
and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

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Joshua 8:30
Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

Joshua 8:31
as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.

Joshua 8:32
He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

Joshua 8:33
All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

Joshua 8:34
Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

Joshua 8:35
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

Joshua 12:9
the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

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Judges 1:23
The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)

Judges 1:24
The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

Judges 1:25
He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.

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Nehemiah 7:33
The men of the other Nebo: fifty-two.

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1 John 2:28
Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

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