10. Now Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people to Ai.
11. Then all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and arrived in front of the city, and camped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
12. And he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13. So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north side of the city, and its rear guard on the west side of the city, and Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley.
14. It came about when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.