YuēShūyàjì 8:15

15 Yuēshūyà hé Yǐsèliè zhòngrén zaì tāmen miànqián zhuāng baì , wǎng nà tōng kuàngyĕ de lù taópǎo .

YuēShūyàjì 8:15 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 8:15

And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before
them
Or smitten, as some of them might be in the pursuit:

and fled by the way of the wilderness;
not a barren desert, but, according to Kimchi and Ben Melech, a place for the pasture of cattle; though perhaps it is the same with the wilderness of Bethaven, ( Joshua 18:12 ) . Epiphanius F23 makes mention of the wilderness of Bethel and Ephraim as near Jericho.


FOOTNOTES:

F23 Contr. Haeres. l. 1. tom. 2.

YuēShūyàjì 8:15 In-Context

13 Yúshì ānzhì le bǎixìng , jiù shì chéng bĕi de quán jūn hé chéng xī de fú bīng . zhè yè Yuēshūyà jìnrù shān gǔ zhī zhōng .
14 Aì chéng de wáng kànjian zhè jǐngkuàng , jiù hé quán chéng de rén , qīngzǎo jímáng qǐlai , àn suǒ déng de shíhou , chū dào Yàlābā qián , yào yǔ Yǐsèliè rén jiāo zhàn . wáng què bú zhīdào zaì chéng hòu yǒu fú bīng .
15 Yuēshūyà hé Yǐsèliè zhòngrén zaì tāmen miànqián zhuāng baì , wǎng nà tōng kuàngyĕ de lù taópǎo .
16 Chéng neì de zhòng mín dōu beì zhāo jù , zhuīgǎn tāmen . Aì chéng rén zhuīgǎn de shíhou , jiù beì yǐnyòu líkāi chéng .
17 Aì chéng hé Bótèlì chéng méiyǒu yī rén bú chūlai zhuīgǎn Yǐsèliè rén de , piĕ le chǎngkāi de chéng mén , qù zhuīgǎn Yǐsèliè rén .
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