Joshua 8:12 - Easy To Read Version

¹² Then Joshua chose about 5,000 men. Joshua sent these men to hide in the area west of the city, between Bethel and Ai.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, west of the city.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Common English Bible

¹² He took about five thousand men and positioned them as an ambush between Bethel and Ai to the west of the city.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Now he had chosen five thousand men, and he had positioned them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, at the western part of the same city.

Joshua 8:12 Cross References

Genesis 12:8

Then Abram left that place and traveled to the mountains east of Bethel. Abram set up his tent there. The city of Bethel was to the west. The city of Ai was to the east. At that place Abram built another altar to the Lord. And Abram worshiped the Lord there.

Genesis 28:19

The name of that place was Luz. But Jacob named it Bethel. [164]

Joshua 8:11

All of the soldiers that were with Joshua marched to Ai. They stopped in front of the city. The army made its camp north of the city. There was a valley between the army and Ai.

Joshua 8:13

So Joshua had prepared his men for the fight. The main camp was north of the city. The other men were hiding to the west. That night Joshua went down into the valley.

1 Samuel 15:5

Then Saul went to the city of Amalek and waited in the valley.