Josué 8:3

Louis Segond

Josué se leva avec tous les gens de guerre, pour monter contre Aï. Il choisit trente mille vaillants hommes, qu'il fit partir de nuit,

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Josu� se leva donc, avec tout le peuple propre � la guerre, pour monter � A�; et Josu� choisit trente mille hommes forts et vaillants, et il les envoya de nuit.

Darby's French Translation
Et Josu� se leva avec tout le peuple de guerre pour monter vers A�; et Josu� choisit trente mille vaillants hommes, et les envoya de nuit.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Josu� donc se leva avec tout le peuple propre � la guerre, pour monter contre Ha�, et Josu� choisit trente mille hommes forts et vaillants, et les envoya de nuit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

by night: Matthew 24:39, Matthew 24:50, Matthew 25:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 2 Peter 3:10

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:8 - Hai Joshua 8:12 - five thousand Joshua 8:17 - a man

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai,.... As the Lord had commanded him:

and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour; out of all the men of war; these were a select company, picked men, not the whole army, as some have thought, for he was ordered to take all the people of war, as he did:

and sent them away by night; from the main army, that they might pass the city and get behind it undiscovered, for they were sent for an ambush; and of these some were to take the city, and be left in it to burn it, and some to smite the men of Ai, as Abarbinel notes.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thirty thousand men - comparing Joshua 8:3 and Joshua 8:12 (“five thousand men”), there is probably a mistake in the numbers of this verse, where an early copyist may have written the sign for 30,000 instead of that for 5,000.

Sent them away by night - The selected 5,000 would accordingly post themselves in the main ravine between Ai and Bethel in the night and early morning. The neighhorhood in which Ai was situated is described as “a wild entanglement of hill and valley;” and amidst its recesses the detachment could easily shelter itself from observation until Joshua’s other measures were taken.