and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys,
and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had:
and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
007:025 Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall
trouble you this day. All Israel stoned him with stones;
and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.
007:026 They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day;
and Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger.
Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor"
to this day.
008:001 Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed:
take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up
to Ai; behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai,
and his people, and his city, and his land;
008:002 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king:
only the spoil of it, and the livestock of it, shall you
take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the
city behind it.
008:003 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai:
and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor,
and sent them forth by night.
008:004 He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against
the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city,
but be all ready:
008:005 and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city.
It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first,
that we will flee before them;
008:006 and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them
away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us,
as at the first: so we will flee before them;
008:007 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of
the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
008:008 It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set
the city on fire; according to the word of Yahweh shall you do:
behold, I have commanded you.
008:009 Joshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush,
and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai:
but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
008:010 Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people,
and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
008:011 All the people, [even] the [men of] war who were with him,
went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped
on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between
him and Ai.
008:012 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between
Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
008:013 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north
of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city;