约书亚记 8:8

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們佔領了城以後，就要放火燒城；要照著耶和華的話行事；你們要謹慎，我已經吩咐你們了。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 夺 了 城 以 後 ， 就 放 火 烧 城 ， 要 照 耶 和 华 的 话 行 。 这 是 我 吩 咐 你 们 的 。

Contextual Overview

³ So Joshua led his whole army toward Ai. Then he chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night. ⁴ Joshua gave them these orders: "Listen carefully. You must set up an ambush behind the city. Don't go far from it, but continue to watch and be ready. ⁵ I and the men who are with me will march toward the city, and the men in the city will come out to fight us, just as they did before. Then we will turn and run away from them. ⁶ They will chase us away from the city, thinking we are running away from them as we did before. When we run away, ⁷ come out from your ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give you the power to win. ⁸ After you take the city, burn it. See to it! You have your orders." 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

set the city: Joshua 8:28, Joshua 6:24

I have: Joshua 1:9, Joshua 1:16, Judges 4:6, 2 Samuel 13:28

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:13 - on the west Joshua 11:12 - as Moses

Cross-References

Genesis 8:10
After seven days Noah again sent out the dove from the boat,

Genesis 8:11
and that evening it came back to him with a fresh olive leaf in its mouth. Then Noah knew that the ground was almost dry.

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

Song of Solomon 1:15
My darling, you are beautiful! Oh, you are beautiful, and your eyes are like doves.

Song of Solomon 2:14
My beloved is like a dove hiding in the cracks of the rock, in the secret places of the cliff. Show me your face, and let me hear your voice. Your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

Matthew 10:16
"Listen, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. So be as clever as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall be, when ye have taken the city,.... Entered it and become masters of it:

[that] ye shall set the city on fire; not the whole city, only some outlying houses of it, to make a smoke which might be seen both by Israel and the men of Ai, for different purposes; for the spoil of the city was first to be taken before it was utterly burnt with fire:

according to the commandment of the Lord shall ye do; plunder the city, destroy the inhabitants of it, and then burn it:

see I have commanded you; delivered the command of the Lord unto them, and therefore were left without excuse, and could not plead ignorance; besides, he was their general, and he expected his orders to be obeyed, as they ought to have been.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 8:8. Ye shall set the city on fire — Probably this means no more than that they should kindle a fire in the city, the smoke of which should be an indication that they had taken it. For as the spoils of the city were to be divided among the people, had they at this time set fire to the city itself, all the property must have been consumed, for the five thousand men did not wait to save any thing, as they immediately issued out to attack the men of Ai in the rear.