Joshua chapter 8 The Fall of I

And the Lord said to Joshua, do not fear and do not be dismayed.

Take all the fighting men with you and rise, go up to I.

See I have given into your hand the king of I and his people, his city and his land, and you shall do to

I and its king, as you did to Jericho and its king, only its spoil and its livestock you shall take

as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city behind it. So Joshua and all the fighting

men arose to go up to I, and Joshua chose 30,000

mighty men of valor and sent them out by night, and he commanded them. Behold, you shall lie in

ambush against the night behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready,

and I and all the people who are with me will approach the city, and when they come out

against us just as before, we shall flee before them, and they will come out after us until

we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, they are fleeing from us, just

as before, so we will flee before them. Then you shall rise up

from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will give it into your hand. And as soon as

you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of the

Lord. See, I have commanded you. So Joshua sent them out,

and they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and I, to the west of I,

but Joshua spent that night among the people. Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered

the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to I,

and all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of I.

With a ravine between them and I, he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and I to the west of the city.

So they stationed the forces, the main

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