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Josua 8:13
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Und so stellten sie das Volk auf, das ganze Lager, das nördlich von der Stadt war, und dessen Hinterhalt westlich von der Stadt; und Josua zog in selbiger Nacht mitten in das Tal.
Und sie stellten das Volk des ganzen Lagers, das gegen Mitternacht vor der Stadt war, also, daß sein letztes reichte bis gegen den Abend von der Stadt. Und Josua ging hin in derselben Nacht mitten in das Tal.
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.
