And 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: Jos 1:9Deu 1:21Deu 31:8Deu 7:18Jos 6:2Dan 2:37-38Isa 43:2Dan 4:35 And 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. Deu 20:14Jos 6:212Ch 20:22Pro 13:222Ch 13:13Deu 3:2Jdg 20:29-33Jer 17:11
¶ So 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. 1Th 5:2Mat 24:39Mat 24:50Mat 25:62Pe 3:10 And 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: Jdg 20:291Sa 15:21Sa 15:5Act 23:21Ecc 7:19Ecc 9:16Jdg 20:33Jdg 20:36 And 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, Jos 7:5Jdg 20:31-33Mat 10:16 (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. 1 Ecc 8:11Ecc 9:12Exo 14:3Exo 15:9Jdg 20:32 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand. Pro 21:30-312Ki 5:1Jos 8:1 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. 2Sa 13:28Jos 1:16Jos 1:9Jdg 4:6Jos 6:24Jos 8:28
¶ Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people. Ezr 2:28Gen 12:8Gen 32:21Jos 7:2Jos 8:12Neh 7:32 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. Gen 22:3Jos 3:1Jos 6:12Jos 7:16Psa 119:60 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. And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city. 2 Jos 8:2-3 And 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. 3 Jos 8:12Jos 8:8
¶ And 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. Mat 24:391Th 5:1-32Pe 2:3Dan 4:31Deu 1:1Ecc 9:12Isa 19:11Isa 19:13 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. Jos 18:12Jdg 20:36Jos 15:61Jos 16:1 And 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. Jdg 20:31Ezk 38:11-22Jdg 20:36-39Jos 8:5-6Psa 9:16Rev 16:14Rev 19:19-21 And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. Deu 2:30Isa 19:11-13Job 5:13Jos 11:20Jos 8:24-25Jos 8:3 And 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. Jos 8:26Job 15:251Sa 17:411Sa 17:451Sa 17:6Exo 14:16Exo 17:9-12Exo 8:5 And 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. And 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. 4 Amo 2:14-16Gen 19:28Isa 34:10Job 11:20Psa 48:5-6Psa 76:5Rev 18:9Rev 19:3 And 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. And 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. Deu 7:21Th 5:3Job 20:5Jos 10:28Jos 11:11-12Jos 6:21Luk 17:26-30
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 1Sa 15:8Jos 10:17Jos 8:29Rev 19:20 And 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. Jos 11:10-14Jos 10:30-41Num 21:24 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. Deu 20:16-18 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. Exo 17:11-12Jos 8:18 Only 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. Jos 8:2Jos 11:4Mat 20:15Num 31:22Num 31:26Psa 50:10 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day. Deu 13:162Ki 19:25Isa 17:1Isa 25:2Jer 49:2Jer 50:26Jer 9:11Jos 4:9 And 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. 2Sa 18:17Deu 21:22-23Jos 7:26Act 12:23Est 7:10Jos 10:26-28Jos 10:30Jos 10:33
¶ Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, Deu 27:4-6Exo 20:24Gen 12:7-8Gen 8:20 As 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. Deu 27:5-7Exo 20:24-251Ki 18:31-32Exo 18:12Exo 24:5Jos 1:8Jos 8:34-352Ch 25:4
¶ And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. Deu 27:2-3Deu 27:8 And 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. Deu 11:29Deu 31:12Deu 27:11-14Deu 31:9Deu 31:25Exo 12:49Jos 24:1Jos 3:3 And 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. Neh 8:2-3Deu 31:10-12Neh 13:1Deu 27:14Deu 29:20-21Deu 30:15-20Jos 1:8Lev 26:1-46 There 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. 5 Deu 31:12Neh 8:2Jer 26:2Act 21:5Deu 29:11Ezr 10:1Jol 2:16Mrk 10:14