AMBUSH

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• Joshua 8:2

  You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

• Joshua 8:3

  So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

• Joshua 8:4

  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 all of you be ready.

• Joshua 8:5

  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.

• Joshua 8:6

  They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,

• Joshua 8:7

  and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

• Joshua 8:8

  It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”

• Joshua 8:9

  Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

• Joshua 8:10

  Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

• Joshua 8:11

  All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and came near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.

• Joshua 8:12

  He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

• Joshua 8:13

  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; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.

• Joshua 8:14

  When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

• Joshua 8:15

  Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

• Joshua 8:16

  All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

• Joshua 8:17

  There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

• Joshua 8:18

  Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

• Joshua 8:19

  The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.

• Joshua 8:20

  When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

• Joshua 8:21

  When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.

• Joshua 8:22

  The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

• Judges 9:25

  The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them, and Abimelech was told about it.

• Judges 9:34

  Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

• Judges 20:29

  Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

• Judges 20:30

  The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

• Judges 20:31

  The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

• Judges 20:32

  The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.”

• Judges 20:33

  All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.

• Judges 20:34

  Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.

• Judges 20:35

  Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men. All these drew the sword.

• Judges 20:36

  So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.

• Judges 20:37

  The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

• Judges 20:38

  Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

• Judges 20:39

  The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.”

• Judges 20:40

  But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.

• Judges 20:41

  The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.

• 2 Chronicles 13:13

  But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

• 2 Chronicles 20:22

  When they began to sing and to praise, Yahweh set ambushers against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were struck.

• Jeremiah 51:12

  Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon! Make the watch strong! Set the watchmen, and prepare the ambushes; for Yahweh has both purposed and done that which he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.