Josué 8:12

Louis Segond

Josué prit environ cinq mille hommes, et les mit en embuscade entre Béthel et Aï, à l'occident de la ville.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Il prit alors environ cinq mille hommes, et les mit en embuscade entre B�thel et A�, � l'occident de la ville.

Darby's French Translation
Or il avait pris environ cinq mille hommes, et les avait plac�s en embuscade entre B�thel et A�, � l'occident de la ville.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Il prit aussi environ cinq mille hommes, lesquels il mit en embuscade entre B�thel et Ha�, � l'Occident de Ha�.

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

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.