Joshua 8:15
World English Bible (WEB)
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
In context
13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.
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.
15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
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.
Joshua 8:15 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
- KJV King James Version
- And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Joshua and all Israel [seem] stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten before them; and they fled by the way of the wilderness.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.