Josué 8:13

Louis Segond

Après que tout le camp eut pris position au nord de la ville, et l'embuscade à l'occident de la ville, Josué s'avança cette nuit-là au milieu de la vallée.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Ils disposèrent ainsi le peuple, tout le camp qui était au nord de la ville, et son arrière-garde à l'occident de la ville; puis Josué s'avança cette nuit-là au milieu de la vallée.

Darby's French Translation
Et après qu'on eut placé le peuple, tout le camp qui était au nord de la ville et son embuscade à l'occident de la ville, alors Josué s'avança cette nuit-là au milieu de la vallée.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et le peuple mit tout le camp qui était du côté du Septentrion contre la ville, et l'embuscade, à l'Occident de la ville; et cette nuit-là Josué s'avança dans la vallée.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

liers in wait: Heb. lying in wait, Joshua 8:4

on the west: Joshua 8:8, Joshua 8:12

Reciprocal: Judges 9:25 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when they had set the people,.... In battle array, as in

1 Kings 20:12; that is, Joshua and the officers of the army:

[even] all the host that [was] on the north of the city; where Joshua and the main army were:

and the liers in wait on the west of the city: both the first and second ambush; when all, were prepared and got ready by their several officers, to act the part they were to do:

Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley; according to Ben Gersom, to see whether the guards or sentinels which were placed there were awake or asleep, lest the men of Ai should come suddenly upon them and smite them; but perhaps it might be to pray and meditate.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Joshua went down by night into the valley where He would be seen at daylight by the men of Ai, and was accompanied no doubt by a picked body of troops. The king of Ai, in the morning, would see neither the ambush in his rear, nor the whole of the great host of Israel among the hills away to the north on his left; but supposing, as it appears, that the Israelites before him were a body detached as on the former occasion to assail his city, he sallied out promptly to attack them.