Israel Deploys the Ambush

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Y'hoshua got up early in the morning, mustered his men and went up to 'Ai ahead of the people, he and the leaders of Isra'el .

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All the troops marching with him went up, advanced, arrived in front of the city and camped on the north side of 'Ai, with a valley between him and 'Ai.

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Then he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Beit-El and 'Ai, to the west of 'Ai.

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Thus the people arrayed themselves, with all the army to the north of the city, and their rearguard lying in wait to the west of the city. Y'hoshua spent that night in the valley.

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The king of 'Ai saw this, so the men in the city hurried out early in the morning to battle against Isra'el, he and all his people, at a meeting-place facing the 'Aravah. But he was unaware that behind the city an ambush had been laid against him.

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Y'hoshua and all Isra'el made as if they had been defeated before them and ran off on the road to the desert.

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All the people in 'Ai were summoned together to pursue them, so they chased Y'hoshua and were drawn away from the city.

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Not a man was left in 'Ai or Beit-El who had not gone after Isra'el; pursuing Isra'el, they left the city wide open.

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