Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who did not go after Israel. They left the city open and went in pursuit of Israel. New Living Translation There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not chase after the Israelites, and the town was left wide open. English Standard Version Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel. Berean Standard Bible Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel. King James Bible And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. New King James Version There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel. New American Standard Bible So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel, but they had all gone out after Israel, and they left the city unguarded and pursued Israel. NASB 1995 So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they left the city unguarded and pursued Israel. NASB 1977 So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they left the city unguarded and pursued Israel. Legacy Standard Bible So not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they forsook the city, leaving it open, and pursued Israel. Amplified Bible Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel; so they left the city open and unguarded and they pursued Israel. Christian Standard Bible Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city exposed while they pursued Israel. Holman Christian Standard Bible Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city exposed while they pursued Israel. American Standard Version And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And there was not a man left in Ai or in Bayth Eil who did not go out after Israel and they left the city when it was opened up and they pursued after Israel Brenton Septuagint Translation There was no one left in Gai who did not pursue after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. Douay-Rheims Bible And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel, that did not pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they had rushed out, English Revised Version And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. GOD'S WORD® Translation Not one man was left in Ai or Bethel; they all went after Israel. So the city was left unprotected as they chased Israel. Good News Translation Every man in Ai went after the Israelites, and the city was left wide open, with no one to defend it. International Standard Version There wasn't a single man left in Ai or Bethel who didn't run out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel. JPS Tanakh 1917 And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. Literal Standard Version and there has not been a man left in Ai and Bethel who has not gone out after Israel, and they leave the city open, and pursue after Israel. Majority Standard Bible Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel. New American Bible not a soldier remained in Ai or Bethel. They abandoned the city, leaving it open, as they pursued Israel. NET Bible No men were left in Ai or Bethel; they all went out after Israel. They left the city wide open and chased Israel. New Revised Standard Version There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel; they left the city open, and pursued Israel. New Heart English Bible There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel. Webster's Bible Translation And there was not a man left in Ai, or Beth-el that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued Israel. World English Bible There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel. Young's Literal Translation and there hath not been left a man in Ai and Bethel who hath not gone out after Israel, and they leave the city open, and pursue after Israel. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Conquest of Ai…16Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city. 17Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel. 18Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,… Cross References Joshua 8:16 Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city. Joshua 8:18 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city." So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai, Treasury of Scripture And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. a man Joshua 8:3,24,25 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… Joshua 11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses. Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day. Jump to Previous Ai Beth Bethel Beth-El City El Israel Leave Open Pursue Pursued Pursuit UnguardedJump to Next Ai Beth Bethel Beth-El City El Israel Leave Open Pursue Pursued Pursuit UnguardedJoshua 8 1. God encourages Joshua3. The plan whereby Ai was taken 29. The king thereof is hanged 30. Joshua builds an altar 32. writes the law on stones 33. and pronounces the blessings and curses (17) There was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el.--Another singular justification of the peculiar strategy of Joshua. The road past Beth-el to Ai had been left open. It passes the north end of the two ravines in which Joshua's ambush was posted. At the same time, it would have been easy to conceal a chain of sentinels that could observe it and tell the 35,000 men in ambush what was going on, so that if any attempt had been made by the men of Beth-el to protect Ai, it could easily have been frustrated. But no one suspected any danger, and therefore no such attempt was made. The men of Beth-el and Ai took the road that was left open to them and pursued the Israelites, probably down the ancient way past Michmash towards the Shebarim, leaving Beth-el and Ai both unprotected. After they had gone some distance, about a mile or a mile and a half from Ai, this road would bring them past the lower end of the ravine in which the ambush was posted. A second chain of outposts would easily take the signal from Joshua when this point had been passed, and then all was over with the town of Ai. It is curious that we do not hear of the capture of Beth-el at this time, though it would have been perfectly easy to take it. The king of Beth-el is named in the list of those whom Joshua smote (Joshua 12:16). We read of its capture in Judges 1:22, and of the "entrance into the city" being sought for and betrayed. But that can hardly have been the first capture of the town. Verse 17. - Or Bethel. These words are not in the LXX., and they may possibly have been a marginal gloss, for the intervention of the people of Bethel in this battle is very unintelligible. See note on Joshua 7:2. On the other hand, it is quite possible that the difficulty involved in their retention may have caused their omission from the LXX., and it may perhaps be thought possible that, on the capture of Ai, the Bethelites returned with all speed to their city, and that Joshua postponed its capture in consequence of the formidable confederacy (Joshua 9:1, 2), which his success had called into existence, or, perhaps, by a desire to signalise at once the victory at Ai by the ceremony (vers. 30-35) at Gerizim. We read in Joshua 12:16 that Bethel was taken. In Judges 1:22 we read that it was not (see note on Joshua 12:16).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Notוְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no a man אִ֗ישׁ (’îš) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person was left נִשְׁאַ֣ר (niš·’ar) Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7604: To swell up, be, redundant in Ai בָּעַי֙ (bā·‘ay) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 5857: Ai -- a Canaanite city or Bethel אֵ֔ל (’êl) Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular Strong's 1008: Bethel -- 'house of God', a city in Ephraim, also a place in southern Judah who אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that did not לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no go out יָצְא֖וּ (yā·ṣə·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim after אַחֲרֵ֣י (’a·ḥă·rê) Preposition Strong's 310: The hind or following part Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc leaving וַיַּעַזְב֤וּ (way·ya·‘az·ḇū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 5800: To loosen, relinquish, permit the city הָעִיר֙ (hā·‘îr) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 5892: Excitement wide open פְּתוּחָ֔ה (pə·ṯū·ḥāh) Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular Strong's 6605: To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve while they pursued וַֽיִּרְדְּפ֖וּ (way·yir·də·p̄ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 7291: To pursue, chase, persecute Israel. יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc Links Joshua 8:17 NIVJoshua 8:17 NLT Joshua 8:17 ESV Joshua 8:17 NASB Joshua 8:17 KJV Joshua 8:17 BibleApps.com Joshua 8:17 Biblia Paralela Joshua 8:17 Chinese Bible Joshua 8:17 French Bible Joshua 8:17 Catholic Bible OT History: Joshua 8:17 There was not a man left (Josh. 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