1. Joshua 8:15 (ESV)
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Where was the wilderness to which they fled?

Joshua 8:15 (ESV)

15 And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.

The reference to the wilderness is simply to show that the men of Israel fled in disarray into the wilderness.1 There were lots of different tracks through the rocks which they could have followed.

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