Joshua 8

8And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:H3068H559H3091H3372H2865H3947H5971H4421H6965H5927H5857H7200H5414H3027H4428H5857H5971H5892H7762And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.H6213H5857H4428H6213H3405H4428H7998H929H962H7760H693H5892H3103So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.H3091H6965H5971H4421H5927H5857H3091H977H7970H505H1368H376H2428H7971H39154And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:H6680H559H7200H693H5892H310H5892H7368H3966H7368H5892H35595And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,H5971H7126H5892H3318H7125H7223H5127H64406(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.H3318H310H5423H5892H559H5127H6440H7223H5127H64407Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.H6965H693H3423H5892H3068H430H5414H30278And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.H8610H5892H3341H5892H784H1697H3068H6213H7200H66809Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.H3091H7971H3212H3993H3427H1008H5857H3220H5857H3091H3885H3915H8432H597110And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.H3091H7925H1242H6485H5971H5927H2205H3478H6440H5971H585711And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.H5971H4421H5927H5066H935H5892H2583H6828H5857H1516H585712And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.H3947H2568H505H376H7760H693H1008H5857H3220H5857H589213And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.H7760H5971H4264H6828H5892H6119H3220H5892H3091H3212H3915H8432H601014And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.H4428H5857H7200H4116H7925H582H5892H3318H7125H3478H4421H5971H4150H6440H6160H3045H693H310H589215And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.H3091H3478H5060H6440H5127H1870H405716And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.H5971H5857H5892H2199H7291H310H7291H310H3091H5423H589217And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.H376H7604H5857H1008H3318H310H3478H5800H5892H6605H7291H347818And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.H3068H559H3091H5186H3591H3027H5857H5414H3027H3091H5186H3591H3027H589219And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.H693H6965H4120H4725H7323H5186H3027H935H5892H3920H4116H3341H5892H78420And 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 that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.H582H5857H6437H310H7200H6227H5892H5927H8064H3027H5127H2008H5971H5127H4057H2015H729121And 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 slew the men of Ai.H3091H3478H7200H693H3920H5892H6227H5892H5927H7725H5221H582H585722And the other issued 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 smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.H428H3318H5892H7125H8432H3478H5221H5704H7604H8300H641223And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.H4428H5857H8610H2416H7126H309124And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.H3478H3615H2026H3427H5857H7704H4057H7291H5307H6310H2719H8552H3478H7725H5857H5221H6310H271925And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.H5307H3117H376H802H8147H6240H505H582H585726For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.H3091H7725H3027H7725H5186H3591H2763H3427H585727Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.H929H7998H5892H3478H962H1697H3068H6680H309128And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.H3091H8313H5857H7760H8510H5769H8077H311729And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.H4428H5857H8518H6086H6256H6153H8121H935H3091H6680H3381H5038H3381H6086H7993H6607H8179H5892H6965H1419H1530H68H311730Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,H3091H1129H4196H3068H430H3478H2022H585831As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.H4872H5650H3068H6680H1121H3478H3789H5612H8451H4872H4196H8003H68H5130H1270H5927H5930H3068H2076H800232And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.H3789H68H4932H8451H4872H3789H6440H1121H347833And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.H3478H2205H7860H8199H5975H727H3548H3881H5375H727H1285H3068H1616H249H2677H413H4136H2022H1630H2677H4136H2022H5858H4872H5650H3068H6680H7223H1288H5971H347834And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.H310H7121H1697H8451H1293H7045H3789H5612H845135There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.H1697H4872H6680H3091H7121H6951H3478H802H2945H1616H1980H7130