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JOS 8:1–8:29 ©

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The defeat and destruction of Ay

8:1 The defeat and destruction of Ay

8Then Yahweh told Yehoshua, “Don’t be afraid or discouraged. Take all your warriors with you and go to Ay. Listen, I’ve given you victory over Ay’s king and his people and his city and his land. 2You’ll do to Ay and its king what you did to Yericho and its king,[fn] except that you all can plunder its spoil and its livestock for yourselves. Ambush the city from behind.”

3So Yehoshua led his warriors towards Ay. He chose thirty thousand of the bravest and strongest warriors and sent them ahead in the darkness 4and told them, “Listen, you all lie in ambush against the city from close behind it, and make sure you all stay alert and ready to attack. 5I will bring those warriors who’re with me and we’ll approach the city, then when they come out to attack us like last time, we’ll run back away from them. 6They’ll think we’re running away from them like we did before, so they’ll chase after us until we’ve drawn them away from the city. 7Then you’ll all move in from your ambush position and capture the city, and your God Yahweh will give the city to you all. 8After you capture the city, set fire to it. Do what I’ve ordered you all which in turn has come from Yahweh. 9So Yehoshua sent them to set up the ambush between Ay and Bethel (so west of Ay). Meanwhile, he stayed overnight at the camp.

10Yehoshua got up early in the morning and gathered the warriors, then he and the Israeli elders went in front of them to go and attack Ay. 11They all went close to the city and camped there slightly to the north, with just a valley between them and Ay. 12(He had sent around five thousand warriors to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ay, west of the city, 13so the main group was to the north and the rear guard to the west.) That night Yehoshua went down into the valley. 14When the king of Ay saw the Israelis, he hurriedly got his men ready, and went out early to meet Israel for the battle. The king and his people went to a prepared spot overlooking the Yordan valley, but he didn’t know that another group lay in ambush behind the city. 15Yehoshua and the Israeli group allowed themselves to be struck by them, then they fled back towards the wilderness 16and all the men in the city were called out to chase them. So they chased after Yehoshua and were drawn away from the city, 17and there wasn’t a single man left in Ay or Bethel who didn’t join the chasethey left the city wide open and chased after the Israelis.

18Then Yahweh told Yehoshua, “Hold your spear out pointing towards Ay, because I will allow you to defeat it.” So Yehoshua held the spear that was in his hand out toward the city. 19When the warriors in the ambush saw that, they rushed out from their place and entered the city and captured it, and quickly set it on fire. 20When the men from Ay turned and looked behind them, the smoke from their city was going up into the sky, but they had nowhere to escape to. Then Yehoshua’s men who’d been fleeing towards the wilderness turned back around towards their pursuers 21and saw that the ambush had captured the city and the smoke was rising. So they continued back towards Ay, killing their men. 22Meanwhile, their warriors came back out of the city, so the men from Ay ended up in the middle of the two groups, and the Israelis fought until they’d killed them all. 23However they captured the king of Ay alive and brought him to Yehoshua.

24Then after the Israelis had finished killing the men of Ay who had chased them towards the wilderness, they returned to Ay and slaughtered the people still in there, 25so a total of twelve thousand men and women from Ay were killed that day. 26Yehoshua didn’t lower his spear until everyone who lived in Ay had been completely destroyed. 27The Israelis only took the livestock and the goods from Ay, just as Yahweh had instructed Yehoshua, 28then Yehoshua burnt the city and made it a permanent pile of rubble where no one lives to this day. 29He hanged the king of Ay on a tree, but as the sun was going down, he commanded that the corpse be brought down from the tree. They threw it into the city gateway and piled a big heap of rocks on top of it which is still there today.


8:2 We’re not actually given any details about what happened to the king of Yericho.

JOS 8:1–8:29 ©

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