Quotes about Victory
you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
— Joshua 8:7
And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”
— Joshua 8:8
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
— Joshua 8:12
Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.
— Joshua 8:15
Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
— Joshua 8:17
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,
— Joshua 8:18
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.
— Joshua 8:19
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.
— Joshua 8:21
Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces on both sides. So Israel struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained.
— Joshua 8:22
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
— Joshua 8:23
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.
— Joshua 8:24
A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
— Joshua 8:25