(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.(Joshua 8:6)

Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.(Joshua 8:7)

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.(Joshua 8:8)

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.

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.(Joshua 8:10)

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.(Joshua 8:11)

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.(Joshua 8:12)

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Joshua 8:9 - Cross Reference

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD. (Genesis 12:8)

And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. (Joshua 7:2)

The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three. (Ezra 2:28)

The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three. (Nehemiah 7:32)

So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company. (Genesis 32:21)

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. (Joshua 8:12)