OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 8:15

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Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

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Verse 15. Afraid. Hebrew “made as if they were beaten before them, and fled.” Thus they drew on the king of Hai, so as to leave the ambush in his rear. Calmet.

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