Israel Deploys the Ambush

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And rising early in the morning, he mustered his soldiers, and went up with the ancients in the front of the army, environed with the aid of the fighting men.

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And when they were come, and were gone up over against the city, they stood on the north side of the city, between which and them there was a valley in the midst.

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And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city:

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But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north side, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of the city. So Joshua went that night, and stood in the midst of the valley.

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And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array, toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back.

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But Joshua, and all Israel gave back, making as if they were afraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness.

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But they shouting together, and encouraging one another, pursued them. And when they were come from the city,

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And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel, that did not pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they had rushed out,

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