YuēShūyàjì 8:16

16 Chéng neì de zhòng mín dōu beì zhāo jù , zhuīgǎn tāmen . Aì chéng rén zhuīgǎn de shíhou , jiù beì yǐnyòu líkāi chéng .

YuēShūyàjì 8:16 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 8:16

And all the people that were in Ai [were] called together to
pursue after them
Because the host of Israel was very numerous, it was judged proper that all the people in Ai should assist in pursuing them, not only to kill the more in the pursuit, but to carry off the spoil and prisoners they should take; or rather the sense is, that all the people in Ai, which were come out with the king to battle, when they saw Israel flee, "cried" ^F24, or shouted, as soldiers do when victorious, "in" or "while pursuing" ^F25 after them;

and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city;
at some considerable distance from it; which was the design to be answered by feigning a flight.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 (wqezw) "vociferantes", V. L. "vociferati sunt", Pagninus, Montanus.
F25 (Pdrl) "persequendo", Pagninus, Montanus.

YuēShūyàjì 8:16 In-Context

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 .

18 Yēhéhuá fēnfu Yuēshūyà shuō , nǐ xiàng Aì chéng shēn chū shǒu lǐ de duǎn qiāng , yīnwei wǒ yào jiāng chéng jiāo zaì nǐ shǒu lǐ . Yuēshūyà jiù xiàng chéng shēn chū shǒu lǐ de duǎn qiāng .