Joshua:8:1-29

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ylt @Joshua:8:1 @And Jehovah saith unto Joshua , 'Fear not , nor be affrighted , take with thee all the people of war , and rise , go up to Ai ; see , I have given into thy hand the king of Ai , and his people , and his city , and his land , ylt @Joshua:8:2 @and thou hast done to Ai and to her king as thou hast done to Jericho and to her king ; only , its spoil and its cattle ye spoil for yourselves ; set for thee an ambush for the city at its rear .' ylt @Joshua:8:3 @And Joshua riseth , and all the people of war , to go up to Ai , and Joshua chooseth thirty thousand men , mighty ones of valour , and sendeth them away by night , ylt @Joshua:8:4 @and commandeth them , saying , 'See , ye are liers in wait against the city , at the rear of the city , ye go not very far off from the city , and all of you have been prepared , ylt @Joshua:8:5 @and I and all the people who [are ] with me draw near unto the city , and it hath come to pass when they come out to meet us as at the first , and we have fled before them , ylt @Joshua:8:6 @and they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city , for they say , They are fleeing before us as at the first , and we have fled before them , ylt @Joshua:8:7 @and ye rise from the ambush , and have occupied the city , and Jehovah your God hath given it into your hand ; ylt @Joshua:8:8 @and it hath been , when ye capture the city , ye burn the city with fire , according to the word of Jehovah ye do , see , I have commanded you .' ylt @Joshua:8:9 @And Joshua sendeth them away , and they go unto the ambush , and abide between Bethel and Ai , on the west of Ai ; and Joshua lodgeth on that night in the midst of the people . ylt @Joshua:8:10 @And Joshua riseth early in the morning , and inspecteth the people , and goeth up , he and the elders of Israel , before the people to Ai ; ylt @Joshua:8:11 @and all the people of war who [are ] with him have gone up , and draw nigh and come in over-against the city , and encamp on the north of Ai ; and the valley [is ] between him and Ai . ylt @Joshua:8:12 @And he taketh about five thousand men , and setteth them an ambush between Bethel and Ai , on the west of the city ; ylt @Joshua:8:13 @and they set the people , all the camp which [is ] on the north of the city , and its rear on the west of the city , and Joshua goeth on that night into the midst of the valley . ylt @Joshua:8:14 @And it cometh to pass , when the king of Ai seeth [it ], that hasten , and rise early , and go out do the men of the city to meet Israel for battle , he and all his people , at the appointed season , at the front of the plain , and he hath not known that an ambush [is ] against him , on the rear of the city . ylt @Joshua:8:15 @And Joshua and all Israel [seem ] stricken before them , and flee the way of the wilderness , ylt @Joshua:8:16 @and all the people who [are ] in the city are called to pursue after them , and they pursue after Joshua , and are drawn away out of the city , ylt @Joshua:8:17 @and there hath not been left a man in Ai and Bethel who hath not gone out after Israel , and they leave the city open , and pursue after Israel . ylt @Joshua:8:18 @And Jehovah saith unto Joshua , 'Stretch out with the javelin which [is ] in thy hand towards Ai , for into thy hand I give it ;' and Joshua stretcheth out with the javelin which [is ] in his hand toward the city , ylt @Joshua:8:19 @and the ambush hath risen [with ] haste , out of its place , and they run at the stretching out of his hand , and go into the city , and capture it , and hasten , and burn the city with fire . ylt @Joshua:8:20 @And the men of Ai look behind them , and see , and lo , the smoke of the city hath gone up unto the heavens , and there hath not been in them power to flee hither and thither -- and the people who are fleeing to the wilderness have turned against the pursuer , -- ylt @Joshua:8:21 @and Joshua and all Israel have seen that the ambush hath captured the city , and that the smoke of the city hath gone up , and they turn back and smite the men of Ai ; ylt @Joshua:8:22 @and these have come out from the city to meet them , and they are in the midst of Israel , some on this side , and some on that , and they smite them till he hath not left to them a remnant and escaped one ; ylt @Joshua:8:23 @and the king of Ai they caught alive , and bring him near unto Joshua . ylt @Joshua:8:24 @And it cometh to pass , at Israel 's finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field , in the wilderness in which they pursued them (and they fall all of them by the mouth of the sword till their consumption ), that all Israel turn back to Ai , and smite it by the mouth of the sword ; ylt @Joshua:8:25 @and all who fall during the day , of men and of women , are twelve thousand -- all men of Ai . ylt @Joshua:8:26 @And Joshua hath not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin till that he hath devoted all the inhabitants of Ai ; ylt @Joshua:8:27 @only , the cattle and the spoil of that city have Israel spoiled for themselves , according to the word of Jehovah which He commanded Joshua . ylt @Joshua:8:28 @And Joshua burneth Ai , and maketh it a heap age-during -- a desolation unto this day ; ylt @Joshua:8:29 @and the king of Ai he hath hanged on the tree till even-time , and at the going in of the sun hath Joshua commanded , and they take down his carcase from the tree , and cast it unto the opening of the gate of the city , and raise over it a great heap of stones till this day .

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