I AM is Salvation (Joshua) 8

 1 I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to I AM is Salvation (Joshua): Fear not, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Heap of Ruins (Ai): see, I have given into your hand the king of Heap of Ruins (Ai), and his people, and his city, and his land:

2 You shall do to Heap of Ruins (Ai) and her king as you did to Its Moon (Jericho) and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, you shall take for prey for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it.

3 So I AM is Salvation (Joshua) arose with all the people of war, to go up against Heap of Ruins (Ai): and I AM is Salvation (Joshua) chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night.

4 He commanded them, saying: Behold, you shall lie in wait behind the city. Do go not very far from the city, but be ready:

5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach to the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first we will flee before them,

6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say: They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

7 Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize the city: for I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) your God will deliver it into your hand.

8 And it shall be when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) do it. See, I have commanded you.

9 I AM is Salvation (Joshua) therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between The House of God (Bethel) and Heap of Ruins (Ai), on the west side of Heap of Ruins (Ai): but I AM is Salvation (Joshua) lodged that night among the people.

10 I AM is Salvation (Joshua) rose up early in the morning, numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of God Prevails (Israel), before the people to Heap of Ruins (Ai).

11 Then all the people, the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Heap of Ruins (Ai): now there was a valley between them and Heap of Ruins (Ai).

12 He took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between The House of God (Bethel) and Heap of Ruins (Ai), on the city’s west side.

13 When they had set the ambush, all the troops that were on the north of the city, and those lying in wait on the west of the city, I AM is Salvation (Joshua) went that night into the midst of the valley.

14 It came to pass, when the king of Heap of Ruins (Ai) saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against God Prevails (Israel) to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he was not aware that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

15 I AM is Salvation (Joshua) and all God Prevails (Israel) made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

16 And all the people that were in Heap of Ruins (Ai) were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after I AM is Salvation (Joshua), and were drawn away from the city.

 

17 There was not a man left in Heap of Ruins (Ai) or The House of God (Bethel), that did not go out after God Prevails (Israel): so they left the city open and pursued after God Prevails (Israel).

18 Then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) said to I AM is Salvation (Joshua): Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Heap of Ruins (Ai); for I will give it into your hand. So, I AM is Salvation (Joshua) stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.

19 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand. They entered into the city, took it quickly, and set the city on fire.

20 When the men of Heap of Ruins (Ai) looked behind them, they saw, the smoke of the city ascending up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

21 When I AM is Salvation (Joshua) and all God Prevails (Israel) saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Heap of Ruins (Ai).

22 The other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of God Prevails (Israel), some on this side and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

23 And the king of Heap of Ruins (Ai) they took alive and brought him to I AM is Salvation (Joshua).

 

24 So it came to pass when God Prevails (Israel) had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Heap of Ruins (Ai) in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the God Prevails (Israel) returned to Heap of Ruins (Ai) and smote it with the edge of the sword.

25 So all that fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand, including all the men of Heap of Ruins (Ai).

26 For I AM is Salvation (Joshua) did not draw his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Heap of Ruins (Ai).

27 But the cattle and the spoil of that city God Prevails (Israel) took for a prey to themselves, according to the word of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) which He commanded I AM is Salvation (Joshua).

28 Then I AM is Salvation (Joshua) burnt Heap of Ruins (Ai), and made it a heap forever. It is a desolation to this day.

29 And the king of Heap of Ruins (Ai) he hanged on a tree until evening: and as soon as the sun was down, I AM is Salvation (Joshua) commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remains to this day.

30 Then I AM is Salvation (Joshua) built an altar to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God of God Prevails (Israel) in mount Bare Mountain (Ebal),

31 As Drawn (Moses) the servant of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) commanded the children of God Prevails (Israel), as it is written in the book of the law of Drawn (Moses), an altar of whole stones, over which no man has lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), and sacrificed peace offerings.

32 He wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Drawn (Moses), which he wrote in the presence of the children of God Prevails (Israel).

33 Then all God Prevails (Israel), and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Children of Joined To (Levites), who bore the ark of the covenant of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Cuttings Off (Gerizim), and half of them over against mount Bare Mountain (Ebal); as Drawn (Moses) the servant of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) had commanded before, that they should bless the people of God Prevails (Israel).

34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings, and the cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

35 There was not a word of all that Drawn (Moses) commanded, which I AM is Salvation (Joshua) read not before all the congregation of God Prevails (Israel), with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.