⁴ with these orders: “Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.

¹² Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

⁴³ So he took his men, divided them into three companies^(A) and set an ambush^(B) in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose to attack them.

²⁹ Then Israel set an ambush^(A) around Gibeah.