H3588A–כִּי–ki

And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

כִּ֣י ki “for”

Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”

And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into your hands. So Joshua took up his spear, stretching it out in the direction of the town.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been taken by the surprise attack, and that the smoke of the town had gone up, turning round they overcame the men of Ai.

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”וְכִ֥י (כִ֥י) Khi “that”

And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God: for the story of his great name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to our ears,

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Now three days after, when they had made this agreement with them, they had word that these men were their neighbours, living near them.

כִּי־ ki- “that”

And the children of Israel did not put them to death, because the chiefs of the people had taken an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. And all the people made an outcry against the chiefs.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing gre

כִּי֩ ki “that”

Now when it came to the ears of Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, that Joshua had taken Ai, and had given it up to the curse (for as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king); and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with

כִּֽי־ ki- “that”וְכִ֨י (כִ֨י) Khi “that”

He was in great fear, because Gibeon was a great town, like one of the king's towns, greater than Ai, and all the men in it were men of war.

כִּ֣י ki “for”וְכִ֨י (כִ֨י) Khi “for”

Come up to me and give me help, and let us make an attack on Gibeon: for they have made peace with Joshua and the children of Israel.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, saying, Be not slow to send help to your servants; come up quickly to our support and keep us safe: for all the kings of the Amorites from the hill-country have come together against us.

כִּ֚י ki “for”

And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them, for I have given them into your hands; they will all give way before you.

כִּ֥י ki “for”

And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

But do you, without waiting, go after their army, attacking them from the back; do not let them get into their towns, for the Lord your God has given them into your hands.

כִּ֧י ki “for”

And Joshua said to them, Have no fear and do not be troubled; be strong and take heart: for so will the Lord do to all against whom you make war.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

And all these kings and their land Joshua took at the same time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.

כִּ֗י Ki “for”

And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

At that time, Joshua went on to take Hazor and put its king to the sword: for in earlier times Hazor was the chief of all those kingdoms.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּ֚י ki “for”

For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

כִּֽי־ ki- “for”

And on that day Moses took an oath, saying, Truly the land where your feet have been placed will become a heritage for you and your children for ever, because you have been true to the Lord your God with all your heart.

כִּ֣י ki “for”

So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said.

כִּ֣י ki “for”כִּֽי־ ki- “that”