strkjv@Joshua:8:1
@ And the
LORD
said
unto
Joshua
,
Fear
not, neither be thou
dismayed
:
take
all the
people
of
war
with thee, and
arise
, go
up
to
Ai
:
see
, I have
given
into thy
hand
the
king
of
Ai
, and his
people
, and his
city
, and his
land
:
strkjv@Joshua:8:2
@ 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.
strkjv@Joshua:8:3
@ So
Joshua
arose
, and all the
people
of
war
, to go
up
against
Ai
: and
Joshua
chose
out
thirty
thousand
mighty
men
of
valour
, and sent them
away
by
night
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:4
@ And he
commanded
them,
saying
,
Behold
, ye shall lie in
wait
against the
city
, even
behind
the
city
:
go
not
very
far
from the
city
, but be ye all
ready
:
strkjv@Joshua:8:5
@ And I, and all the
people
that are with me, will
approach
unto the
city
: and it shall come to pass, when they come
out
against
us, as at the
first
, that we will
flee
before
them,
strkjv@Joshua:8:6
@ (For they will come
out
after
us) till we have
drawn
them from the
city
; for they will
say
, They
flee
before
us, as at the
first
: therefore we will
flee
before
them.
strkjv@Joshua:8:7
@ Then ye shall rise
up
from the
ambush
, and
seize
upon the
city
: for the
LORD
your
God
will
deliver
it into your
hand
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:8
@ And it shall be, when ye have
taken
the
city
, that ye shall
set
the
city
on
fire
: according to the
commandment
of the
LORD
shall ye
do
.
See
, I have
commanded
you.
strkjv@Joshua:8:9
@
Joshua
therefore sent them
forth
: and they
went
to lie in
ambush
, and
abode
between
Bethel
Beyth- and
Ai
, on the west
side
of
Ai
: but
Joshua
lodged
that
night
among
the
people
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:10
@ 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
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:11
@ 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
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:12
@ And he
took
about
five
thousand
men
, and
set
them to lie in
ambush
between
Bethel
Beyth- and
Ai
, on the west
side
of the
city
A
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:13
@ 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
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:14
@ 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
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:15
@ And
Joshua
and all
Israel
made as if they were
beaten
before
them, and
fled
by the
way
of the
wilderness
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:16
@ And all the
people
that were in
Ai
A
were
called
together to
pursue
after
them: and they
pursued
after
Joshua
, and were drawn
away
from the
city
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:17
@ And there was not a
man
left
in
Ai
or
Bethel
Beyth-, that went not
out
after
Israel
: and they
left
the
city
open
, and
pursued
after
Israel
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:18
@ And the
LORD
said
unto
Joshua
, Stretch
out
the
spear
that is in thy
hand
toward
Ai
; for I will
give
it into thine
hand
. And
Joshua
stretched
out
the
spear
that he had in his
hand
toward the
city
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:19
@ And the
ambush
arose
quickly
out of their
place
, and they
ran
as soon as he had stretched
out
his
hand
: and they
entered
into the
city
, and
took
it, and
hasted
and
set
the
city
on
fire
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:20
@ And when the
men
of
Ai
looked
behind
them, they
saw
, and, behold, the
smoke
of the
city
ascended
up
to
heaven
, and they had no
power
to
flee
this way or that
way
: and the
people
that
fled
to the
wilderness
turned
back
upon the
pursuers
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:21
@ And when
Joshua
and all
Israel
saw
that the
ambush
had
taken
the
city
, and that the
smoke
of the
city
ascended
, then they turned
again
, and
slew
the
men
of
Ai
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:22
@ And the
other
el- issued
out
of the
city
against
them; so they were in the
midst
of
Israel
, some on this side, and some on that side: and they
smote
them, so
that
they
let
none of them
remain
or
escape
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:23
@ And the
king
of
Ai
they
took
alive
, and
brought
him to
Joshua
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:24
@ And it came to pass, when
Israel
had made an
end
of
slaying
all the
inhabitants
of
Ai
in the
field
, in the
wilderness
wherein they
chased
them, and when they were all
fallen
on the
edge
of the
sword
, until they were
consumed
, that all the
Israelites
returned
unto
Ai
, and
smote
it with the
edge
of the
sword
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:25
@ And so it was, that all that
fell
that
day
, both of
men
and
women
, were
twelve
sh@
thousand
, even all the
men
of
Ai
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:26
@ For
Joshua
drew
not his
hand
back
, wherewith he stretched
out
the
spear
, until he had utterly
destroyed
all the
inhabitants
of
Ai
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:27
@ Only the
cattle
and the
spoil
of that
city
Israel
took for a
prey
unto themselves, according unto the
word
of the
LORD
which he
commanded
Joshua
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:28
@ And
Joshua
burnt
Ai
, and
made
it an
heap
for
ever
, even a
desolation
unto this
day
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:29
@ And the
king
of
Ai
he
hanged
on a
tree
until
eventide
H6153: and as soon as the
sun
was
down
,
Joshua
commanded
that they should
take
his
carcase
down
from the
tree
, and
cast
it at the
entering
of the
gate
of the
city
, and
raise
thereon a
great
H1530of
stones
, that remaineth unto this
day
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:30
@ Then
Joshua
built
an
altar
unto the
LORD
God
of
Israel
in
mount
Ebal
,
strkjv@Joshua:8:31
@ As
Moses
the
servant
of the
LORD
commanded
the
children
of
Israel
, as it is
written
in the
book
of the
law
of
Moses
, an
altar
of
whole
stones
, over which no man hath lift
up
any
iron
: and they
offered
thereon burnt
offerings
unto the
LORD
, and
sacrificed
peace
offerings
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:32
@ And he
wrote
there upon the
stones
a
copy
of the
law
of
Moses
, which he
wrote
in the
presence
of the
children
of
Israel
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:33
@ And all
Israel
, and their
elders
, and
officers
, and their
judges
,
stood
on this side the
ark
and on that side before the
priests
the
Levites
, which
bare
the
ark
of the
covenant
of the
LORD
, as well the
stranger
, as he that was
born
among them;
half
of them
over
against
mount
Gerizim
, and
half
of them over
against
mount
Ebal
; as
Moses
the
servant
of the
LORD
had
commanded
before
, that they should
bless
the
people
of
Israel
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:34
@ And
afterward
he
read
all the
words
of the
law
, the
blessings
and
cursings
, according to all that is
written
in the
book
of the
law
.
strkjv@Joshua:8:35
@ There was not a
word
of all that
Moses
commanded
, which
Joshua
read
not before all the
congregation
of
Israel
, with the
women
, and the little
ones
, and the
strangers
that were
conversant
among
them.
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