7. Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will give it into your hand.
8. And as soon as you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of the Lord. See, I have commanded you.”
9. So Joshua sent them out. And they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night among the people.
10. Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people 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 Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.