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Yahweh then said to Joshua, 'Be fearless and undaunted. Take all your fighting men with you. Up! March against Ai. Look, I have put the king of Ai, his people, his town and his territory at your mercy. (Joshua 8, 1)
I, and the whole people with me, shall advance on the town, and when the people of Ai come out to engage us as they did the first time, we shall run away from them. (Joshua 8, 5)
Joshua sent them off, and they made their way to the place of ambush and took up position between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. Joshua spent the night with the people, (Joshua 8, 9)
then, getting up early next morning, reviewed the people and, with the elders of Israel, marched on Ai at their head. (Joshua 8, 10)
The people pitched the main camp to the north of the town and set up its ambush to the west of the town. Joshua went that night into the middle of the plain. (Joshua 8, 13)
The king of Ai had seen this; the people of the town got up early and hurried out, so that he and all his people could engage Israel in battle on the slope facing the Arabah; but he did not know that an ambush had been laid for him to the rear of the town. (Joshua 8, 14)
All the people in the town joined in the pursuit and, in pursuing Joshua, were drawn away from the town. (Joshua 8, 16)
When the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke rising from the town into the sky. None of them had the courage to run in any direction, for the people fleeing towards the desert turned back on their pursuers. (Joshua 8, 20)
The number of those who fell that day, men and women together, was twelve thousand, all people of Ai. (Joshua 8, 25)
All Israel, with their elders, their officials and their judges, stood on either side of the ark, facing the levitical priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, foreigners with the native-born, half of them on the upper slopes of Mount Ebal, as Moses, servant of Yahweh, had originally ordered for the blessing of the people of Israel. (Joshua 8, 33)
Because of which, our elders and all the people of our country said to us, "Take provisions with you for the journey; go and meet them and say to them: We are your servants; so make a treaty with us." (Joshua 9, 11)
Now it so happened that three days after the treaty had been made, it became known that they were a neighbouring people, living in Israel's region. (Joshua 9, 16)
