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Josh 8:9-13
Joshua 8:9-13 KJV 9 Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai. 12 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. 13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
Joshua 8:9-13 Knox bible
9 So he sent them on their way, and they reached the place where they were to lie in wait, halting to the west of Hai, between it and Bethel. Josue himself spent that night with the main body of his army,
10 and when day dawned he called the muster-roll; then he went to the attack, he and the elders marching in the van, with their body-guard about them.
11 They climbed the heights opposite the city, and halted there to the north of it, with a valley in between.
12 (Josue had now chosen out five thousand of his men for the ambush west of Hai, towards Bethel,
13 and all the rest of them marched to the north, so that only the rearguard of that great host were near the western part of the city. That night Josue moved away, and took up his station half-way across the valley.)✻
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9 Sometimes even after God tells us what we need to do we have wait a bit longer before we act because we should carefully follow His plans and not rush thru it.
10 So he is attacking as if there is no other group attacking as normal even though it will be the other group to do most of the attack, this makes them think Joshua’s group is attacking but they are unaware of the other group.
11 So they stop at a perfect battle ground, where to fight often showed advantage.
12 So now the ambush is going to happen, this is Joshua’s plan, the people of the city may think Joshua is calling them out for battle.
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So they make camp but Joshua changes his place. Joshua’s plan was going to soon happen and God was going to give them the city.
--- we can know good from God's word
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