Joshua 8:10
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New International Version (©2011)
Early the next morning Joshua mustered his army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched before them to Ai.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Early the next morning Joshua roused his men and started toward Ai, accompanied by the elders of Israel.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people to Ai.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Joshua started early the next morning and mobilized them. Then he and the elders of Israel led the troops up to Ai.

International Standard Version (©2012)
In the morning, Joshua got up early, mustered his army, and set off for Ai, accompanied by the elders of Israel in full view of the army.

NET Bible (©2006)
Bright and early the next morning Joshua gathered the army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched at the head of it to Ai.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Joshua got up early in the morning and assembled the troops. Then he and the leaders of Israel led the army to Ai.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
And Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And rising early in the morning, he mustered his soldiers, and went up with the ancients in the front of the army environed with the aid of the fighting men.

Darby Bible Translation
And Joshua rose early in the morning, and inspected the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua rose early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

World English Bible
Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and inspecteth the people, and goeth up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

8:3-22 Observe Joshua's conduct and prudence. Those that would maintain their spiritual conflicts must not love their ease. Probably he went into the valley alone, to pray to God for a blessing, and he did not seek in vain. He never drew back till the work was done. Those that have stretched out their hands against their spiritual enemies, must never draw them back.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - And numbered the people. Or reviewed, or mustered. The word is frequently translated visited in Scripture. It then came to mean a visit for the sake of inspection. The elders of Israel. Joshua's council, alike of war and of peace. Before the people. Literally, in their sight (ford πρόσωπον, LXX), i.e., at their head.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people,.... To see if there were any wanting, and to put them in proper order for their march:

and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai; these elders were either the seventy elders who went with Joshua as council to him; or it may be rather they were inferior officers, who went at the head of their respective corps under them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10. Joshua … numbered the people—that is, the detachment of liers-in-wait; he did this, to be furnished with clear evidence afterwards, that the work had been done without any loss of men, whereby the people's confidence in God would be strengthened and encouragement given them to prosecute the war of invasion with vigor.

he and the elders of Israel—the chief magistrates and rulers, whose presence and official authority were necessary to ensure that the cattle and spoil of the city might be equally divided between the combatants and the rest of the people (Nu 31:27)—a military rule in Israel, that would have been very liable to be infringed, if an excited soldiery, eager for booty, had been left to their own will.

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The Conquest of Ai
…9Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people. 10And 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. 11And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai. …

Genesis 22:3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.
Joshua 8:9 Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai--but Joshua spent that night with the people.
Joshua 8:11 The entire force that was with him marched up and approached the city and arrived in front of it. They set up camp north of Ai, with the valley between them and the city.