Joshua 8:12 - New Revised Standard Version

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And he had chosen five thousand men: and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city.

Joshua 8:12 Cross References

Genesis 12:8

From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.

Genesis 28:19

He called that place Bethel; but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Joshua 8:11

All the fighting men who were with him went up, and drew near before the city, and camped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.

Joshua 8:13

So they stationed the forces, the main encampment that was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.

Judges 1:22

The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel; and the Lord was with them.

1 Samuel 15:5

Saul came to the city of the Amalekites and lay in wait in the valley.