9Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-22)We have here an account of the taking of Ai by stratagem. The stratagem here used, we are sure, was lawful and good; God himself appointed it, and we have no reason to think but that the like is lawful and good in other wars. Here was no league broken, no treaty of peace, that the advantage was gained; no, these are sacred things, and not to be jested with, nor used to serve a turn; truth, when on…
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