extended south of the Scorpion Ascent, crossed to Zin, went up from the south to Kadesh Barnea, crossed to Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned toward Karka.

went up to Beth Hoglah, crossed north of Beth Arabah, and went up to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

Now before the spies went to sleep, Rahab went up to the roof.

So Joshua instructed the priests, “Come up from the Jordan!”

(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)

“Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan.”

The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai.

So Joshua and his whole army, including the bravest warriors, marched up from Gilgal.

Joshua attacked them by surprise after marching all night from Gilgal.

Joshua and all Israel marched up from Eglon to Hebron and fought against it.

From there he attacked the people of Debir. (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)

The third lot belonged to the tribe of Zebulun by its clans. The border of their territory extended to Sarid.

When the Israelites heard this, the entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh to launch an attack against them.

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

They returned and reported to Joshua, “Don’t send the whole army. About two or three thousand men are adequate to defeat Ai. Don’t tire out the whole army, for Ai is small.”

It then went up the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites on the south (that is, Jerusalem), going up to the top of the hill opposite the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the Valley of the Rephaites to the north.

Their northern border started at the Jordan, went up to the slope of Jericho on the north, ascended westward to the hill country, and extended to the desert of Beth Aven.

Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai. Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

Bright and early the next morning Joshua gathered the army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched at the head of it to Ai.