Joshua 8:15

Modern

Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.

Traditional

And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

Literal

And Joshua and all Israel were struck before their faces, and they fled by the way of the wilderness.

Latin

Josue vero et omnis Israël cesserunt loco, simulantes metum, et fugientes per solitudinis viam.

Hebrew

English

Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.

Joshua and the Israelite army ran away like they did in the first attack (7:4–5).

Theme notes and profiles

Joshua 18:12
On the north side their border began at the Jordan, went up past the northern slope of Jericho, headed west through the hill country, and came out at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
Judges 20:36
Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
Joshua 15:61
These were in the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,
Joshua 16:1
The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes Joshua: Moses' assistant who led Israel into Canaan