Verse
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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 ;
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 .
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
.
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. ”
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 .
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
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 :
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 .
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 ;
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
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 ;
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
you shall
rise up
from the ambush ,
and take
possession
of
the city :
for Yahweh
your God will deliver it into your hand.
you are
to
rise from the ambush and seize
the city ,
for the
LORD
your God will deliver it into your hand.
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.
And
when you have taken
the city, set it
on fire .
Do as
the
LORD
has
commanded!
See
, I have given
you orders
. ”
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.
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 arose
up early in
the morning ,
and mustered
the
people
, and went
up,
he and the elders of Israel ,
before the
people
to Ai.
Joshua got
up early the next
morning and mobilized
his
men
, and he and the elders of Israel marched
before them
up
to Ai.
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
.
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
.
He
took
about five thousand men ,
and set them
in
ambush between Bethel and Ai, on
the west side
of the city.
Now
Joshua
had
taken
about five thousand men and set up
an
ambush between Bethel and Ai, to
the west of the city.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Joshua and all Israel made
as
if
they
were
beaten before them, and fled by
the
way
of
the wilderness.
Joshua and all Israel let
themselves
be
beaten back
before them, and they
fled toward
the wilderness.
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.
Then
all the men
of
Ai
were summoned
to pursue them ,
and they followed
Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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
.
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 king of Ai they
took
alive ,
and brought him to Joshua.
But
they
took
the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
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.
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
.
All
that
fell
that
day,
both
of men and women ,
were
twelve
thousand,
even
all the men
of Ai.
A
total
of twelve
thousand
men and women fell
that
day—
all the people
of 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.
Joshua did
not
draw back the hand
that
held
his
battle
lance
until he had devoted
to
destruction
all who
lived
in
Ai.
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.
Israel
took
for
themselves
only the cattle and plunder
of that city, as
the LORD
had
commanded Joshua.
So Joshua burnt
Ai ,
and made it a heap forever
, even
a desolation ,
to this day.
So Joshua burned
Ai and made it a permanent
heap of
ruins
, a desolation 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.
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.
Then
Joshua built an altar to Yahweh
, the God of Israel, in
Mount
Ebal,
At
that
time
Joshua built an altar on
Mount
Ebal
to the
LORD
, the God of Israel,
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.
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.
He
wrote
there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote,
in
the
presence
of
the
children
of
Israel
.
And
there in
the
presence
of
the
Israelites,
Joshua
inscribed
on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had
written
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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