⁷ And Joshua cometh, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and they fall on them;

⁹ And Joshua cometh in unto them suddenly (all the night he hath gone up from Gilgal),

² for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

³ for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;