Joshua 8:2-7 ▼

2 Do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, but take its spoil and its livestock as war booty for yourselves. Set an ambush around the city.|

3 So Joshua and all of the fighting men prepared to go out against Ai. Joshua selected 30,000 valiant warriors and sent them out by night,

4 telling them, |Pay attention now! You are to set up an ambush around the city. Don't go very far from the city, and all of you remain on alert.

5 I and all of the army with me will advance upon the city. When they come out after us like they did before, we'll run away from them.

6 They'll come after us until we've drawn them away from the city, because they'll say, 'They're running away from us just like they did before.' While we're running away from them,

7 you get up from the ambush and seize the city, because the LORD your God will give it into your control.