4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:
The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.
Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.*
So Yehoshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to `Ai: and Yehoshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.
All the men of Yisra'el rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Ba`al-Tamar: and the ambushers of Yisra'el broke forth out of their place, even out of Ma`areh-Geva.
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.
Thus says the LORD of Armies, I have marked that which `Amalek did to Yisra'el, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.