and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
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and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
And you shall rise from the ambush and possess the city. And Yahweh your God will give it into your hand.
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
and ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.
and ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
Then you shall rise vp from lying in waite and destroy the citie: for the Lord your God wil deliuer it into your hand.
And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall arise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into our hands.
and ye rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and Jehovah your God hath given it into your hand;
and you rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and your God YHWH has given it into your hand;
Then you come up out of your place of hiding, and you will capture the city. Yahweh your God will give it into your hand.
And you shall rise from the ambush and possess the city. And Yahweh your God will give it into your hand.
And ye shall rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city; and Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.
and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
Then ye shall rise from the ambush and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand,
While we're running away from them, you will get up from your ambush positions and take the town, for the Lord God will hand it over to you.
Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God will give it up into your hands.
And ye shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
מֵהָ֣אוֹרֵ֔ב to lie in wait H693 occurs in 39 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 12 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Joshua 8:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 14 words vs World English Bible 24. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וְאַתֶּ֗ם תָּקֻ֨מוּ֙ מֵהָ֣אוֹרֵ֔ב וְהוֹרַשְׁתֶּ֖ם אֶת הָעִ֑יר וּנְתָנָ֛הּ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֖ם בְּיֶדְכֶֽם
and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
World English Bible · Public Domain
σύ δέ ἐκ ἀναἵστημι ἐκ ὁ ἐνέδρα καί πορεύομαι εἰς ὁ πόλις
And you⌃ shall rise up out of the ambuscade, and go into the city.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְאַתּוּן תְּקוּמוּן מִכְּמָנָא וּתְתַרְכוּן יַת קַרְתָּא וְיִמְסְרְנָהּ יְיָ אֱלָהָכוֹן בְּיֶדְכוֹן:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼârab (“to lie in wait”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 8:7 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.