YuēShūyàjì 8:20

20 Aì chéng de rén huí tóu yī kàn , búliào , chéng zhōng yān qì chōng tiān , tāmen jiù wúlì xiàng zuǒ xiàng yòu taópǎo . nà wǎng kuàngyĕ taópǎo de bǎixìng biàn zhuǎn shēn gōngjī zhuīgǎn tāmende rén .

YuēShūyàjì 8:20 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 8:20

And when the men of Ai looked behind them
On some account or another, perhaps observing that the army of Israel made a full stop and was gazing at the city:

they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven;
from whence they concluded an enemy was there, and had set fire to it:

and they had no power to flee this way or that way;
for if they turned back to their city there was an enemy, how powerful they knew not, possessed of it, and whom they might expect would meet them; and if they pushed forward, there was the whole army of Israel against them, which now turned and faced them, showing no fear of them:

and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the
pursuers;
the people of Israel, that fled by the way of the wilderness, ( Joshua 8:15 ) , turned about, and fell upon the men of Ai that pursued them.

YuēShūyàjì 8:20 In-Context

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 .

19 Tā yī shēnshǒu , fú bīng jiù cóng máifu de dìfang jímáng qǐlai , duó le chéng , pǎo jìn chéng qù , fàng huǒ fùnshāo .

20 Aì chéng de rén huí tóu yī kàn , búliào , chéng zhōng yān qì chōng tiān , tāmen jiù wúlì xiàng zuǒ xiàng yòu taópǎo . nà wǎng kuàngyĕ taópǎo de bǎixìng biàn zhuǎn shēn gōngjī zhuīgǎn tāmende rén .

21 Yuēshūyà hé Yǐsèliè zhòngrén jiàn fú bīng yǐjing duó le chéng , chéng zhōng yān qì fēi téng , jiù zhuǎn shēn huí qù , jī shā Aì chéng de rén .

22 Fú bīng yĕ chū chéng yíng jī Aì chéng rén , Aì chéng rén jiù kùn zaì Yǐsèliè rén zhōngjiān , qián hòu dōu shì Yǐsèliè rén . yúshì Yǐsèliè rén jī shā tāmen , méiyǒu liú xià yī gè , yĕ méiyǒu yī gè taótuō de ,