Joshua 8:12

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.

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.

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:

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 So Joshua sent them forth, and they went into ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai, - but Joshua lodged that night in the midst of the people. ¹⁰ And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, - and went up - he and the elders of Israel, before the people, to Ai. ¹¹ And, all the people of war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came in, right before the city, - and pitched on the north of Ai, with, a valley, between them and Ai. ¹² And he took about five thousand men, - and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city. ¹³ And, when the people had set all the host that was on the north of the city, with the rear thereof on the west of the city, then went Joshua, during the night, into the midst of the valley. ¹⁴ And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted, and rose up early, and the men of the city came out to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at an appointed time, before the waste plain, - he not knowing that there was an ambush lying in wait for him, behind the city. ¹⁵ So then Joshua and all Israel suffered themselves to be smitten before them, - and fled, by the way of the wilderness; ¹⁶ and all the people who were in the city were called out to pursue them, - and they pursued Joshua, and so were drawn out away from the city. ¹⁷ And there remained not a man, in Ai or Bethel, who had not gone out after Israel, - and they left the city, open, and pursued Israel.

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
and the fountains of the roaring-deep were shut, and the windows of the heavens, - and the heavy rain was restrained from the heavens;

Genesis 8:3
and the waters returned from off the earth they went on returning, - and so the waters decreased at the end of a hundred and fifty days.

Genesis 8:5
But, the waters went on decreasing, until the tenth month, - in the tenth month , on the first of the month, were seen the tops of the mountains.

Genesis 8:6
And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made;

Genesis 8:7
and sent forth a raven, - and it kept going forth and returning, until the drying up of the waters from off the earth.

Genesis 8:8
And he sent forth a dove from him, - to see whether the waters had abated, from off the face of the ground;

Genesis 8:10
Then stayed he yet seven days more, - and, again sent forth the dove out of the ark.

Psalms 27:14
Wait thou for Yahweh, - Be strong, and let thy heart be bold, Wait, then, for Yahweh!

Isaiah 8:17
I will therefore long for Yahweh, Who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, - And will wait, for him.

Isaiah 25:9
So shall it he said, in that day, Lo! our God, is this! We waited for him, that he might save us, - This, is Yahweh! We waited for him, Let us exult and rejoice 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.