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Chapter 8 And the Lord said unto Joshua,
Fear not, neither be thou dismayed.

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Take all the people of war with thee,
and arise, go up to Ai.

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See, I have given into thy hand the king
of Ai, and his people, and his city,

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and his land.

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And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as
thou didst unto Jericho and her king.

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Only the spoil thereof, and the cattle
thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto

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yourselves.

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Lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

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So Joshua arose, and all the people of
war, to go up against Ai.

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And Joshua chose out thirty thousand
mighty men of valor, and sent them away by

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night.

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And he commanded them, saying,
Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the

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city, even behind the city.

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Go not very far from the city,
but be ye all ready.

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And I, and all the people that are with
me, will approach unto the city.

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And it shall come to pass, when they come
out against us, as at the first,

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that we will flee before them.

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For they will come out after us,
till we have drawn them from the city.

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For they will say, They flee before us as
at the first.

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Therefore we will flee before them.

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Then ye shall rise up from the ambush,
and seize upon the city.

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For the Lord your God will deliver it into
your hand.

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And it shall be, when ye have taken the
city, that ye shall set the city on fire.

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According to the commandment of the Lord
shall ye do.

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See, I have commanded you.

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Joshua therefore sent them forth.

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And they went to lie in ambush,
and abode between Bethel and Ai,

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on the west side of Ai.

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But Joshua launched that night among the
people.

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And Joshua rose up early in the morning,
and numbered the people, and went up he

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and the elders of Israel, before the
people to Ai.

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And all the people, even the people of war
that were with him, went up and drew nigh,

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and came before the city, and pitched on
the north side of Ai.

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Now there was a valley between them and
Ai.

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And he took about five thousand men,
and set them to lie in ambush between

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Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the
city.

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And when they had set the people,
even all the host that was on the north of

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the city, and their liars in wait on the
west of the city, Joshua went that night

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into the midst of the valley.

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And it came to pass, when the king of Ai
saw it, that they hasted and rose up

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early, and the men of the city went out
against Israel to battle, he and all his

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people, at a time appointed before the
plain.

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But he was not that there were liars in
ambush against him behind the city.

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And Joshua and all Israel made as if they
were beaten before them, and fled by the

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way of the wilderness.

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And all the people that were in Ai were
called together to pursue after them.

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And they pursued after Joshua,
and were drawn away from the city.

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And there was not a man left in Ai or
Bethel that went not out after Israel.

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And they left the city open, and pursued
after Israel.

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And the Lord said unto Joshua,
Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand

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toward Ai, for I will give it into thine
hand.

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And Joshua stretched out the spear that he
had in his hand toward the city,

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and the ambush arose quickly out of their
place.

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And they ran as soon as he had stretched
out his hand, and they entered into the

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city, and took it, and hasted and set the
city on fire.

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And when the men of Ai looked behind them,
they saw, and behold, the smoke of the

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city ascended up to heaven, and they had
no power to flee this way or that way.

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And the people that fled to the wilderness
turned back upon the pursuers.

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And when Joshua and all Israel saw that
the ambush had taken the city,

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and that the smoke of the city ascended,
then they turned again, and slew the men

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of Ai.

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And the other issued out of the city
against them, so they were in the midst of

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Israel, some on this side and some on that
side.

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And they smote them, so that they let none
of them remain or escape.

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And the king of Ai they took alive,
and brought him to Joshua.

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And it came to pass, when Israel had made
an end of slaying all the inhabitants of

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Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein
they chased them, and when they were all

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fallen on the edge of the sword,
until they were consumed, that all the

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Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it
with the edge of the sword.

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And so it was, that all that fell that
day, both of men and women, were twelve

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thousand, even all the men of Ai.

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For Joshua drew not his hand back,
wherewith he stretched out the spear,

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until he had utterly destroyed all the
inhabitants of Ai.

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Only the cattle and the spoil of that city
Israel took for a prey unto themselves,

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according unto the word of the Lord which
he commanded Joshua.

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And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap
for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

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And the king of Ai, he hanged on a tree
until eventide.

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And as soon as the sun was down,
Joshua commanded that they should take his

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carcass down from the tree, and cast it at
the entering of the gate of the city,

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and raised thereon a great heap of stones,
that remaineth unto this day.

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Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord
God of Israel in Mount Ebal, as Moses the

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servant of the Lord commanded the children
of Israel, as it is written in the book of

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the law of Moses, an altar of whole
stones, over which no man hath lift up any

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iron.

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And they offered thereon burnt offerings
unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace

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offerings.

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And he wrote there upon the stones a copy
of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the

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presence of the children of Israel.

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And all Israel, and their elders and
officers, and their judges, stood on this

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side the ark, and on that side,
before the priests, the Levites,

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which bear the ark of the covenant of the
Lord, as well the stranger, as he that was

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born among them, half of them over against
Mount Gerizim, and half of them over

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against Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant
of the Lord had commanded before,

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that they should bless the people of
Israel.

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And afterward he read all the words of the
law, the blessings and cursings,

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according to all that is written in the
book of the law.

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There was not a word of all that Moses
commanded, which Joshua read not,

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before all the congregation of Israel,
with the women, and the little ones,

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and the strangers that were conversant
among them.