3. So Joshua and all the fighting men went up immediately to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand of the best fighting men and sent them by night.
4. And he commanded them, saying, “Look, you are to lay an ambush against the city from behind. Do not go very far from the city and be ready.
5. Then I and all of the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they go out to meet us as before, we will flee from them.
6. They will come out after us until we draw them away from the city, because they will think, ‘They are fleeing from us as before.’ So we will flee from them.
7. Then you will rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city, for Yahweh your God will give it into your hand.