Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night

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In The King James Version

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

In Context

2And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”

4with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:9So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with the staff of God in my hand.”

Judges 9:32Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.

Matthew 24:50The master of that servant will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he does not anticipate.

1 Thessalonians 5:2For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 8:2-3

The Destruction of Ai. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. Israel were very happy in having such a… Read the whole commentary →

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