Yisra'el set ambushes all around Gevah.
When David inquired of the LORD, he said, You shall not go up: make a circuit behind them, and come on them over against the mulberry trees.
You shall do to `Ai and her king as you did to Yericho and her king: only the spoil of it, and the livestock of it, shall you take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the city behind it.
He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready:
The children of Yisra'el went up against the children of Binyamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gevah, as at other times.
There came over against Gevah ten thousand chosen men out of all Yisra'el, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.
