Joshua 8:12

Douay-Rheims Bible

And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Hebrew Names Version
He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beit-El and `Ai, on the west side of the city.

King James Version
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.

Lexham English Bible
And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

English Standard Version
He took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

New Century Version
Then Joshua chose about five thousand men and set them in ambush in the area west of the city between Bethel and Ai.

New English Translation
He took five thousand men and set an ambush west of the city between Bethel and Ai.

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

New American Standard Bible
Then he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee tooke about fiue thousande men, and set them to lye in waite betweene Beth-el and Ai, on the Westside of the citie.

Legacy Standard Bible
And he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Contemporary English Version
Joshua had already sent five thousand soldiers to the west side of the town to hide and wait to attack.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Beit-El and ‘Ai, to the west of ‘Ai.

Darby Translation
Now he had taken about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joshua chose about 5000 men. He sent these men to hide in the area west of the city, between Bethel and Ai.

George Lamsa Translation
And Joshua took five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city;

Good News Translation
He took about five thousand men and put them in hiding west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.

Literal Translation
And he took about five thousand men and set them as an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He had taken aboute a fyue thousande men, and set them in the hynder watch betwene Bethel and Hai, on the west syde of the cite,

American Standard Version
And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Bible in Basic English
And taking about five thousand men, he put them in position for a surprise attack on the west side of Ai, between Beth-el and Ai.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he toke vpon a fiue thousande men, and set them to lye in wayte betweene Bethel and Ai, on the westsyde of the citie.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai.

King James Version (1611)
And he tooke about fiue thousand men, and set them to lye in ambush betweene Bethel and Ai, on the West side of the citie.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the ambuscade was on the west side of the city.

English Revised Version
And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Berean Standard Bible
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`Sotheli he hadde chose fyue thousynde men, and hadde sette in buyschementis bitwixe Bethauen and Hay, in the west part of the same citee.

Young's Literal Translation
And he taketh about five thousand men, and setteth them an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city;

Update Bible Version
And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he took about five thousand men; and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

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

New King James Version
So he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

New Living Translation
That night Joshua sent about 5,000 men to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the town.

New Life Bible
Then he took about 5,000 men and hid them between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

New Revised Standard
Taking about five thousand men, he set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he took about five thousand men, - and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.

Revised Standard Version
And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Contextual Overview

⁹ And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of the ambush, and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city of Hai. But Josue staid that night in the midst of the people, ¹⁰ And rising early in the morning, he mustered his soldiers, and went up with the ancients in the front of the army, environed with the aid of the fighting men. ¹¹ And when they were come, and were gone up over against the city, they stood on the north side of the city, between which and them there was a valley in the midst. ¹² And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city: ¹³ But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north side, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of the city. So Josue went that night, and stood in the midst of the valley. ¹⁴ And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array, toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back. ¹⁵ But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making as if they were afraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness. ¹⁶ But they shouting together, and encouraging one another, pursued them. And when they were come from the city, ¹⁷ And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel, that did not pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they had rushed out,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

five thousand: Joshua 8:2, Joshua 8:3

of the city: or, of Ai

Reciprocal: Joshua 8:1 - take all Joshua 8:9 - between Joshua 8:13 - on the west Judges 9:25 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 8:2
The fountains also of the deep, and the floodgates of heaven, were shut up, and the rain from heaven was restrained.

Genesis 8:3
And the waters returned from off the earth going and coming: and they began to be abated after a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:5
And the waters were going and decreasing until the tenth month: for in the tenth month, the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

Genesis 8:6
And after that forty days were passed, Noe opening the window of the ark, which he had made, sent forth a raven:

Genesis 8:7
Which went forth and did not return, till the waters were dried up upon the earth.

Genesis 8:8
He sent forth also a dove after him, to see if the waters had now ceased upon the face of the earth.

Genesis 8:10
And having waited yet seven other days, he again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

Psalms 27:14
(26-14) Expect the Lord, do manfully, and let thy heart take courage, and wait thou for the Lord.

Isaiah 8:17
And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isaiah 25:9
And they shall say in that day: Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord, we have patiently waited for him, we shall rejoice and be joyful in his salvation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush,.... This was another ambush, as both Jarchi and Kimchi observe; and the latter adds, perhaps he set them nearer the city than the former; though some are of opinion that these are the same ambush spoken of, whose number is here given, being set on the same side of the city; and they suppose that Joshua had with him but thirty thousand men in all, five thousand of which he sent to lie in ambush, and the other twenty five thousand remained with him; but it seems clear that all the men of war were to be taken, and were taken by them, and that out of them thirty thousand were sent by him to lie in wait at first, and now five thousand more:

between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city; and though they were on the same side of the city with the first and larger ambush, yet, as Abarbinel observes, they might be set nearer the city and to the army; and he supposes the first ambush was to take the city, and the second little ambush, as he calls it, was placed, that when the men of the city came out, they might make a noise and a stir, and skirmish with them, that so they might not come upon the camp suddenly.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He took - Rather “had taken;” the words refer to the ambuscade which Joshua had detached during the previous night.