The ambush commanded

3So Joshua and all the fighting people rose to go up against Ai, and Joshua chose thirty thousand men, mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

4And he commanded them, saying, “Look, you are to lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, and all of you must be ready.”

5And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us, as before, we will flee before them.

6And they will come out after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are fleeing before us as at the first,’ and we will flee before them.

7Then you shall rise up from the ambush and take the city, for Yahweh your God will give it into your hand.

8And when you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. According to the word of Yahweh, you shall do. See, I have commanded you.