Joshua 8:12 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

¹² Joshua had already sent 5,000 soldiers to the west side of the town to hide and wait to attack.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 12:8

Abram traveled to the hill country east of Bethel and camped between Bethel and Ai, where he built another altar and worshiped the Lord.

Genesis 28:19

and he named the place Bethel. Before that it had been named Luz.

Joshua 8:11

They set up camp in full view of the town, across the valley to the north.

Joshua 8:13

Now all his troops were in place. Part of the army was in the camp to the north of Ai, and the others were hiding to the west, ready to make a surprise attack. That night, Joshua went into the valley.

Judges 1:22

The Ephraim and Manasseh tribes were getting ready to attack Bethel, which at that time was called Luz. And the Lord helped them when they sent spies to find out as much as they could about Bethel.

1 Samuel 15:5

then led them to a valley near one of the towns in Amalek, where they got ready to make a surprise attack.