约书亚记 8:10

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

約書亞清早起來，召集人民上艾城去，他和以色列的長老走在人民的前面。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
约 书 亚 清 早 起 来 ， 点 齐 百 姓 ， 他 和 以 色 列 的 长 老 在 百 姓 前 面 上 艾 城 去 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ Then Joshua sent them to wait in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua stayed the night with his people. ¹⁰ Early the next morning Joshua gathered his men together. He and the older leaders of Israel led them up to Ai. ¹¹ All of the soldiers who were with Joshua marched up to Ai and stopped in front of the city and made camp north of it. There was a valley between them and the city. ¹² Then Joshua chose about five thousand men and set them in ambush in the area west of the city between Bethel and Ai. ¹³ So the people took their positions; the main camp was north of the city, and the other men were hiding to the west. That night Joshua went down into the valley. ¹⁴ Now when the king of Ai saw the army of Israel, he and his people got up early the next morning and hurried out to fight them. They went out to a place east of the city, but the king did not know soldiers were waiting in ambush behind the city. ¹⁵ Joshua and all the men of Israel let the army of Ai push them back. Then they ran toward the desert. ¹⁶ The men in Ai were called to chase Joshua and his men, so they left the city and went after them. ¹⁷ All the men of Ai and Bethel chased the army of Israel. The city was left open; not a man stayed to protect it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rose up: Joshua 3:1, Joshua 6:12, Joshua 7:16, Psalms 119:60

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 18:1 - numbered

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain on the earth. It will rain forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe off from the earth every living thing that I have made."

Genesis 7:10
Seven days later the flood started.

Genesis 8:12
Seven days later he sent the dove out again, but this time it did not come back.

Psalms 40:1

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

I waited patiently for the Lord . He turned to me and heard my cry.

Isaiah 8:17
I will wait for the Lord to help us, the Lord who is ashamed of the family of Israel. I will wait for him.

Isaiah 26:8
But, Lord , we are waiting for your way of justice. Our souls want to remember you and your name.

Romans 8:25
But we are hoping for something we do not have yet, and we are waiting for it patiently.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people,.... To see if there were any wanting, and to put them in proper order for their march:

and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai; these elders were either the seventy elders who went with Joshua as council to him; or it may be rather they were inferior officers, who went at the head of their respective corps under them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Numbered the people - Rather, perhaps, “mustered” or “arrayed” them for their march. The distance from the camp at Gilgal to Ai is about fifteen miles. In the evening of the day after the despatch of the 5,000 liers in wait, Joshua and the host might make their appearance in the neighborhood of the city.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 8:10. Numbered the people — ויפקד את העם vaiyiphkod eth haam, he visited the people - inspected their ranks to see whether every thing was in perfect readiness, that in case they should be needed they might be led on to the attack. There is no doubt that Joshua had left the rest of the army so disposed and ready, part of it having probably advanced towards Ai, that he might easily receive reinforcements in case of any disaster to the thirty thousand which had advanced against the city; and this consideration will serve to remove a part of the difficulty which arises from Joshua 8:1; Joshua 8:3; Joshua 8:10, collated with other parts of this chapter. Had he brought all his troops in sight, the people of Ai would not have attempted to risk a battle, and would consequently have kept within their walls, from which it was the object of Joshua to decoy them. See the preceding observations, particularly 10, 11, and 12 (Joshua 8:10-12).