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Then
the
LORD
said to Joshua, “Do
not
be afraid or
discouraged.
Take the whole
army
with you, and go up and
attack
Ai .
See
, I have delivered
into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land .
Yahweh
said to Joshua, Don't
be afraid ,
neither
be
dismayed:
take all
the people
of
war
with you, and arise,
go up to
Ai ;
behold
, I have given
into your hand the king of Ai, and
his people, and
his city, and his land ;
And
you shall do to Ai and its
king as you did to Jericho and its
king, except
that
you
may
carry
off
their
plunder
and livestock
for yourselves .
Set up
an ambush behind
the city. ”
You shall do to Ai and her
king as you did to Jericho and her
king :
only
the
spoil
of
it
, and the
cattle
of
it,
shall
you
take
for a
prey
to
yourselves :
set you
an ambush for
the city behind
it
.
So Joshua and the whole
army
set
out
to attack
Ai .
Joshua chose 30
, 000
mighty men of valor and sent them out
at
night
So Joshua arose,
and all
the people
of
war,
to go
up
to
Ai :
and
Joshua chose out
thirty
thousand
men
, the
mighty men of valor ,
and sent them forth
by
night .
with
these
orders:
“Pay
attention.
You are
to
lie in ambush behind
the city, not
too
far from it.
All
of
you
must
be ready .
He
commanded
them,
saying,
Behold,
you shall
lie in ambush against
the city, behind
the
city;
don't
go
very
far from the
city,
but
be all
ready :
Then
I and all the troops
with me will advance
on
the city. When they come out against us as they
did
the first time
, we will flee from
them .
and
I ,
and all the people
who
are
with me ,
will approach
to
the city. It
shall
happen,
when they come out against us ,
as at
the first, that
we will flee before
them ;
They will pursue
us until we have drawn them away from the city ,
for they will say, ‘The
Israelites
are
running
away
from
us
as
they did
before .’
So
as we flee from
them ,
and
they will come
out
after
us ,
until we have drawn them away from the city ;
for they will say, They flee
before us,
as at
the
first:
so
we will
flee before
them ;
you are
to
rise from the ambush and seize
the city ,
for the
LORD
your God will deliver it into your hand.
and
you shall
rise up
from the ambush ,
and take
possession
of
the city :
for Yahweh
your God will deliver it into your hand.
And
when you have taken
the city, set it
on fire .
Do
as
the LORD
has
commanded!
See
, I have given
you orders
. ”
It
shall
be,
when you have seized
on
the city, that
you
shall
set the
city
on fire ;
according
to
the word
of
Yahweh
shall
you
do:
behold
, I have commanded
you.
So
Joshua sent them out,
and they went to the place
of
ambush and lay
in
wait
between Bethel and Ai, to
the west of Ai .
But Joshua spent
that night among the people.
Joshua sent them forth;
and they went to set
up
the ambush ,
and stayed
between Bethel and Ai, on
the west side
of Ai :
but Joshua lodged
that night among the people.
Joshua got
up early the next
morning and mobilized
his
men
, and he and the elders of Israel marched
before them
up
to Ai.
Joshua arose
up early in
the morning ,
and mustered
the
people
, and went
up,
he and the elders of Israel ,
before the
people
to Ai.
Then
all the troops
who were with him marched
up and approached
the city .
They
arrived
in
front
of
Ai
and camped
to
the north of it,
with
the
valley between them
and the
city
.
All the people,
[even]
the
[men
of]
war
who were with him ,
went
up ,
and drew
near,
and
came
before
the city ,
and encamped
on
the north side
of Ai:
now
there
was
a
valley between him
and Ai
.
Now
Joshua
had
taken
about five thousand men and set up
an
ambush between Bethel and Ai, to
the west of the city.
He
took
about five thousand men ,
and set them
in
ambush between Bethel and Ai, on
the west side
of the city.
So the forces
were
stationed
with
the main
camp
to
the north of the city and the
rear
guard
to
the west of the city .
And that
night
Joshua went into the valley.
So they
set
the people,
even
all
the host
who
was
on
the north of the city ,
and their
liers-in-wait
who
were
on
the west of the city ;
and Joshua went that
night
into the midst
of
the
valley.
When the king of Ai saw the
Israelites
, he
hurried out
early in
the
morning
with
the men of the city to engage
them
in
battle at an
appointed place
overlooking
the Arabah .
But he did
not
know that an ambush had
been
set
up
against him behind the city.
It
happened,
when the king of Ai saw it
, that
they
hurried and
rose
up
early ,
and
the men of the city went
out
against
Israel
to battle ,
he
and
all
his
people,
at the
time
appointed ,
before
the Arabah ;
but he didn't
know that there
was
an ambush against him behind the city.
Joshua and all Israel let
themselves
be
beaten back
before them, and they
fled toward
the wilderness.
Joshua and all Israel made
as
if
they
were
beaten before them, and fled by
the way
of
the
wilderness.
Then
all the men
of
Ai
were summoned
to pursue them ,
and they followed
Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
All the people
who
were in
the
city
were
called
together
to pursue after
them :
and they pursued
after
Joshua ,
and were drawn away from the city.
Not a man was
left in Ai or Bethel
who did
not
go out after Israel ,
leaving
the city wide
open while
they
pursued Israel.
There
was
not a man left in Ai or Beth
El,
who didn't
go out after Israel :
and
they
left
the city open ,
and
pursued after
Israel.
Then
the
LORD
said to Joshua, “Hold
out your battle
lance
toward Ai ,
for into your hand I
will
deliver
the
city
. ”
So
Joshua held
out his battle
lance
toward Ai,
Yahweh
said to Joshua, Stretch
out the
javelin
that
is
in
your hand
toward Ai ;
for I
will
give
it
into your hand. Joshua stretched
out the
javelin
that
was
in
his hand
toward the
city.
and
as
soon
as
he
did
so,
the men
in
ambush rose
quickly from
their position.
They rushed
forward
, entered the city, captured
it ,
and immediately
set it
on fire.
The ambush arose
quickly out
of
their place,
and
they ran
as
soon
as
he
had
stretched
out
his
hand
, and
entered into
the city, and
took
it ;
and they
hurried
and
set the
city
on fire.
When the men of Ai turned
and
looked back
, the smoke of the city was
rising
into
the
sky.
They
could
not
escape
in
any
direction
, and the troops
who had
fled to the wilderness now
became
the pursuers.
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
who fled to the wilderness turned
back
on
the pursuers.
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men
in
ambush had captured
the city and that smoke was
rising
from
it
, they turned around
and struck
down
the men of Ai.
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 killed
the men of Ai.
Meanwhile,
those
in
the ambush
came out of the city against them ,
and
the
men
of
Ai
were trapped
between
the Israelite
forces
on
both
sides.
So
Israel struck them down
until
no
survivor
or fugitive
remained
.
The others
came forth
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
struck them ,
so
that
they
let
none
of
them
remain
or escape
.
But
they
took
the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
The king of Ai they
took
alive ,
and brought him to Joshua.
When Israel had finished
killing all the men
of Ai who
had
pursued
them
into
the field and
wilderness, and when
every
last
one
of
them
had
fallen by the sword, all the
Israelites
returned to Ai and put
it to
the sword as
well
.
It
happened,
when Israel had made
an
end
of
killing all the inhabitants
of Ai in
the field ,
in
the
wilderness in
which
they
pursued
them
, and they
were
all
fallen by the edge
of
the
sword, until
they
were
consumed,
that
all Israel
returned to Ai ,
and struck
it with
the edge
of
the
sword.
A
total
of twelve
thousand
men and women fell
that
day—
all the people
of Ai.
All
that
fell
that
day,
both
of men and women ,
were
twelve
thousand,
even
all the men
of Ai.
Joshua did
not
draw back the
hand
that
held
his battle
lance
until he had devoted
to
destruction
all who
lived
in
Ai.
For
Joshua didn't
draw back his hand,
with
which
he
stretched
out
the
javelin,
until he had utterly
destroyed
all the
inhabitants
of
Ai.
Israel
took
for
themselves
only the cattle and plunder
of that city, as
the LORD
had
commanded Joshua.
Only the cattle and the
spoil
of that city Israel
took
for
prey
to
themselves
, according
to
the word
of
Yahweh
which
he
commanded Joshua.
So Joshua burned
Ai and made it a permanent
heap of
ruins
, a desolation to this day.
So Joshua burnt
Ai ,
and made it a heap forever
, even
a desolation ,
to this day.
He
hung
the king of Ai on a tree until evening ,
and at sunset
Joshua commanded that
they take
down
the
body from the tree and throw
it down
at the entrance of the city
gate .
And over
it
they
raised a large
pile
of rocks
, which
remains
to this day.
The king of Ai he
hanged
on a tree until the
evening :
and at the
going
down
of
the
sun
Joshua commanded ,
and
they took
his
body down
from the tree ,
and cast
it at the entrance of the gate of
the
city,
and raised thereon
a great
heap
of stones
, to this day.
At
that
time
Joshua built an altar on
Mount
Ebal
to the
LORD
, the God of Israel,
Then
Joshua built an altar to Yahweh
, the God of Israel, in
Mount
Ebal,
just
as Moses the servant of the
LORD
had
commanded the Israelites.
He
built
it according
to
what
is written in the Book of the Law of Moses :
“
an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool
has
been
used.”
And on
it
they offered burnt offerings to the
LORD
, and they
sacrificed peace offerings.
as Moses the servant of Yahweh
commanded the children
of
Israel,
as
it is written in the book of the law of Moses ,
an altar of uncut stones ,
on which no man
had
lifted
up
any
iron :
and they offered thereon
burnt offerings to Yahweh
, and sacrificed peace -
offerings.
And
there in
the
presence
of
the
Israelites,
Joshua
inscribed
on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had
written
.
He
wrote
there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote,
in
the
presence
of
the
children
of
Israel
.
All Israel, foreigners
and citizens
alike,
with
their elders ,
officers, and judges, stood on both
sides
of the ark of the covenant of the LORD
facing
the Levitical
priests
who
carried
it.
Half of the
people
stood
in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal ,
as Moses the servant of the
LORD
had commanded earlier
, to
bless the people of Israel.
All Israel, and their elders and
officers, and their
judges, stood on this
side
of the ark and
on
that
side
before
the
priests
the
Levites,
who
bore
the
ark
of the covenant of Yahweh,
as
well
the foreigner
as
the native;
half of them
in front of Mount Gerizim ,
and half of them in front of Mount Ebal ;
as Moses the servant of Yahweh
had commanded at
the
first
, that
they
should
bless the people of Israel.
Afterward ,
Joshua
read aloud
all the words of the law —
the blessings
and the curses—
according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.
Afterward he
read all the words of the law ,
the blessing
and the curse,
according to all that is written in the book of the law.
There was not a word of all that Moses had
commanded that
Joshua failed
to
read before the whole
assembly of Israel, including
the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who lived
among them.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded ,
which
Joshua didn't
read before all
the assembly of Israel, and
the women, and
the little ones, and the foreigners who were
among them.
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