Joshua 8:3-11

³And Joshua and all the men of war rose to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men, and he sent them away by night.

⁴And he charged them, saying, Do ye lie in ambush behind the city: do not go far from the city, and ye shall all be ready.

⁵And I and all with me will draw near to the city: and it shall come to pass when the inhabitants of Ai shall come forth to meet us, as before, that we will flee from before them.

⁶And when they shall come out after us, we will draw them away from the city; and they will say, These men flee from before us, as also before.

⁷And ye shall rise up out of the ambuscade, and go into the city.

⁸Ye shall do according to this word, lo! I have commanded you.

⁹And Joshua sent them, and they went to lie in ambush; and they lay between Bethel and Ai, westward of Ai.

¹⁰And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people; and he went up, he and the elders before the people to Ai.

¹¹And all the men of war went up with him, and they went forward and came over against the city eastward.