THEOSISJoshua 8:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city: for they will think that we flee as before.
וְיָצְא֣וּ אַחֲרֵ֗ינוּ עַ֣ד הַתִּיקֵ֤נוּ אוֹתָם֙ מִן־הָעִ֔יר כִּ֣י יֹֽאמְר֔וּ נָסִ֣ים לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר בָּרִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה וְנַ֖סְנוּ לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Judg 20:32For they thought to cut them off as they did before. But they artfully feigning a flight, designed to draw them away from the city, and by their seeming to flee, to bring them to the highways aforesaid.
- Eccl 8:11For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.
- Ex 14:3And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.
- Ex 15:9The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.
- Eccl 9:12Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.