All the people, [even] the [men of] war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of `Ai: now there was a valley between him and `Ai.
Yehoshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Yisra'el, before the people to `Ai.
He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beit-El and `Ai, on the west side of the city.