06:007:026 And they raised over him a great heap of
stones unto this day.
So
the lord turned from the fierceness of his anger.
Wherefore
the
name of that place was called, The valley of Achor,
unto
this
day.
06:008:001 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:
06:008:002 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.
06:008:003 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.
06:008:004 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:
06:008:005 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,
06:008:006 (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.
06:008:007 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush,
and seize upon the
city:
for the lord your God will deliver it into your
hand.
06:008:008 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.
06:008:009 Joshua therefore sent them forth:
and they went to lie in
ambush,
and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of
Ai:
but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
06:008:010 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.
06:008:011 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.
06:008:012 And he took about five thousand men, and
set them to lie in
ambush
between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
06:008:013 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.


