Joshua 8:2-7

8:2 Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho ¹  and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!”

8:3 Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai. ²  Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night. 8:4 He told ³  them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready! 8:5 I and all the troops ⁴  who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to fight us like before, we will retreat from them. 8:6 They will attack ⁵  us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say, ‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them. 8:7 Then you rise up from your hiding place ⁶  and seize ⁷  the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you.

[8:2]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[8:3]  ² tn “And Joshua and all the people of war arose to go up [against] Ai.”

[8:4]  ³ tn Or “commanded, ordered.”

[8:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “the people.”

[8:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “come out after.”

[8:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “from the ambush.”

[8:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “take possession of.”