Joshua 8:6
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Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city: for they will think that we flee as before.

drawn [heb] pulled

Joshua 8:16 But they shouting together, and encouraging one another, pursued them. And when they were come from the city,

They flee

Exodus 14:3 And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

Judges 20:32 For they thought to cut them off as they did before. But they artfully feigning a flight, designed to draw them away from the city, and by their seeming to flee, to bring them to the highways aforesaid.

Ecclesiastes 8:11 For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.

Ecclesiastes 9:12 Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.

Context
The Conquest of Ai
5But I, and the rest of the multitude which is with me, will approach on the contrary side against the city. And when they shall come out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs, as we did before: 6Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city: for they will think that we flee as before.7And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall rise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands.…
Cross References
Joshua 8:5
But I, and the rest of the multitude which is with me, will approach on the contrary side against the city. And when they shall come out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs, as we did before:

Joshua 8:7
And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall rise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands.

Lexicon
They will pursue
וְיָצְא֣וּ (wə·yā·ṣə·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

us until
עַ֣ד (‘aḏ)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

we have drawn them away
הַתִּיקֵ֤נוּ (hat·tî·qê·nū)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5423: To pull, draw, or tear away, apart, or off

from
מִן־ (min-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of

the city,
הָעִ֔יר (hā·‘îr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

for
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

they will say,
יֹֽאמְר֔וּ (yō·mə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

‘[The Israelites] are running away
נָסִ֣ים (nā·sîm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5127: To flit, vanish away

from us
לְפָנֵ֔ינוּ (lə·p̄ā·nê·nū)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

as they did before.’
כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

So as we flee
וְנַ֖סְנוּ (wə·nas·nū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 5127: To flit, vanish away

from them,
לִפְנֵיהֶֽם׃ (lip̄·nê·hem)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face


Additional Translations
They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

And when they shall come out after us, we will draw them away from the city; and they will say, These men flee from before us, as also before.

And they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first; and we will flee before them.

and they will come out after us, till we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first; so we will flee before them:

(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,

and they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,
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