Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and all the warriors started off for Ai. Joshua picked out three thousand veterans and despatched them by 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

2Treat Ai and its king as you treated Jericho and its king, except that you may take the spoils and cattle in it for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the town to the west of it.”

4with orders to “Lie in ambush to the west of the town at its rear. Do not go too far away but be all ready.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:50that servant’s master will come on a day when they do not expect him, and at an hour of which they are unaware,

1 Thessalonians 5:2You yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come just as a thief comes 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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