8. When you have taken the city, you shall set it afire; as the Lord commanded, you shall do. See, I have commanded you.
9. So Joshua sent them forth, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
10. Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the men, and went up with the elders of Israel before the warriors to Ai.
11. And all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of [it], with a ravine between them and Ai.
12. And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, west of the city.
13. So they stationed all the army–the main encampment that was north of the city and their men in ambush behind and on the west of the city–and Joshua went that night into the midst of the ravine.