The lot came out for the children of Yosef from the Yarden at Yericho, at the waters of Yericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Yericho through the hill country to Beit-El;
Their border on the north quarter was from the Yarden; and the border went up to the side of Yericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward; and the goings out of it were at the wilderness of Beit-Aven.
It happened, when the king of `Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Yisra'el to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the `Aravah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
So the children of Binyamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Yisra'el gave place to Binyamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gevah.
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Yisra'el to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of it.