6. And 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; and we will flee before them.
7. And ye shall rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city; and Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.
8. And it shall be when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Jehovah shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
9. And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai. And Joshua lodged that night among the people.
10. And Joshua rose early in the morning, and inspected the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11. And all the people of war that were with him went up, and drew near, and came before the city; and they encamped on the north of Ai; and the valley was between them and Ai.
12. Now he had taken about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.
13. And when they had set the people, the whole camp on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.