God Commands the Strategy for Ai

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ADONAI said to Y'hoshua, "Don't be afraid or fall into despair! Take all the people who can fight with you, set out, and go up to 'Ai; because now I have handed over to you the king of 'Ai, his people, his city and his land.

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Do to 'Ai and its king as you did to Yericho and its king; but this time, take its spoil and cattle as booty for yourselves. Ambush the city from behind."

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So Y'hoshua set out for 'Ai with all the people who could fight. Y'hoshua chose 30,000 men, the most courageous of his troops, and sent them out by night.

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He instructed them, "You are to lie in wait to ambush the city from behind. Stay close to the city; and all of you, be ready.

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I and all the troops with me will approach the city; and when they come out to attack us, as they did before, we will run away from them.

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They will chase after us until we have drawn them away from the city; because they will say, 'They're running away from us, as they did before'; so we'll run away from them.

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Then you will jump up from your ambush position and take possession of the city, for ADONAI your God will hand it over to you.

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When you have captured the city, you are to set it on fire; do according to what ADONAI has said. Those are your orders."

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Y'hoshua sent them out; and they went to the place for the ambush, staying between Beit-El and 'Ai, to the west of 'Ai; while Y'hoshua camped that night with the people.

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