Joshua 8:12
10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
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Compare
- BSB
- Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
- KJV
- And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.
- WEB
- He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
- ASV
- And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.
- DARBY
- Now he had taken about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.
- BLB
- And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and between Ai, on the west side of the city.
- ÅB
- Så tok han omkring fem tusen mann og la dem i bakhold mellom Betel og Ai, vestenfor byen,
- OTB
- Han tok omkring fem tusen mann og satte dem i bakhold mellom Betel og Ai, på vestsiden av byen.
- B1930
- Så tok han omkring fem tusen mann og la dem i bakhold mellem Betel og Ai, vestenfor byen,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Joshua 8:2–3
And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.
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