KJV King James Version
Joshua 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.
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Joshua 8:9
Joshua 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
ASV American Standard Version
And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the ambushment, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Joshua sendeth them away, and they go unto the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai; and Joshua lodgeth on that night in the midst of the people.
Surrounding context — Joshua 8
6 (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.
7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 And 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.
9 Joshua 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.
10 And 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.
11 And 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.
12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
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וַיִּשְׁלָחֵ֣םH7971 · sha.lachto send: departיְהוֹשֻׁ֗עַH3091 · ye.ho.shu.aJoshuaוַיֵּֽלְכוּ֙H1980 · ha.lakhto go: wentאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)הַמַּאְרָ֔בH3993 · ma.a.ravambushוַיֵּשְׁב֗וּH3427 · ya.shavto dwellבֵּ֧יןH996 · ba.yinbetweenבֵּֽית־H1008 · bet-elBethelאֵ֛לH1008 · bet-elBethelוּבֵ֥יןH996 · ba.yinbetweenהָעַ֖יH5857 · ayAiמִיָּ֣םH3220 · yamseaלָעָ֑יH5857 · ayAiוַיָּ֧לֶןH3885 · lunto lodgeיְהוֹשֻׁ֛עַH3091 · ye.ho.shu.aJoshuaבַּלַּ֥יְלָהH3915 · lay.lahnightהַה֖וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itבְּת֥וֹךְH8432 · ta.vekhmidstהָעָֽם׃H5971 · ampeople
Cross-references
Ezra 2:28The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.Joshua 8:12And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.Genesis 12:8And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, [having] Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.Joshua 7:2And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.Genesis 32:21So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.Nehemiah 7:32The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
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