Joshua 8:3 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night

BSB

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ASV

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.

KJV

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Thirty thousand men - comparing Jos 8:3 and Jos 8:12 (“five thousand men”), there is probably a mistake in the numbers of this verse, where an early copyist may have written the sign for 30,000 instead of that for 5,000. Sent them away by night - The selected 5,000 would accordingly post themselves in the main ravine between Ai and Bethel in the night and early morning.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Out of this number a detachment of five thousand was sent forward to conceal themselves in the immediate precincts of the town, in order to seize the first opportunity of throwing themselves into it [Jos 8:12].

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּ֧קָם	vai.Ya.kom	and he arose	H6965 →
יְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַ	ye.ho.Shu.a'	Joshua	H3091 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
עַ֥ם	'am	[the] people of	H5971 →
הַמִּלְחָמָ֖ה	ha.mil.cha.Mah	<the> war	H4421 →
לַעֲל֣וֹת	la.'a.Lot	to go up	H5927 →
הָעָ֑י	ha.'Ai	<the> Ai	H5857 →
וַיִּבְחַ֣ר	vai.yiv.Char	and he chose	H977 →
יְ֠הוֹשֻׁעַ	Ye.ho.shu.a'	Joshua	H3091 →
שְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים	she.lo.Shim	thirty	H7970 →
אֶ֤לֶף	'E.lef	thousand	H505 →
אִישׁ֙	'ish	man	H376 →
גִּבּוֹרֵ֣י	gi.bo.Rei	[the] mighty [men] of	H1368 →
הַחַ֔יִל	ha.Cha.yil	<the> strength	H2428 →
וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֖ם	vai.yish.la.Chem	and he sent out them	H7971 →
לָֽיְלָה׃	La.ye.lah	night	H3915 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Thessalonians 5:2
For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
leads to
- Revelation 16:15
  “Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Peter 3:10
  But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 24:42–44
  Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 3:3
  Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
2 Peter 3:10
But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid…
leads to
- Revelation 21:1
  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
- Matthew 24:35
  Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- 2 Peter 3:7
  And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Isaiah 51:6
  Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like…

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