Joshua 8:3-11

³And Joshua rose, and all the host of fighting men with him, for to go up into Ai; and by night he sent thirty chosen thousand of strong men;

⁴and he commanded to them, and said, Set or Put ye ambushments behind the city, and go ye not further; and all ye shall be ready;

⁵forsooth I, and the tother multitude which is with me, shall come on the contrary side against the city; and when they shall go out against us, as we did before, we shall flee, and turn the backs,

⁶till they pursue us, and be drawn away further from the city; for they shall guess, that we shall flee them as we did before. Then while we shall flee, and while they pursue,

⁷ye shall rise from the ambushments, and shall waste the city; and your Lord God shall betake it into your hands.

⁸And when ye have taken it, burn ye it; do ye all things, as I have commanded to you.

⁹And Joshua let them go, and they went to the place of the ambushments, and sat betwixt Bethel and Ai, at the west coast of the city of Ai. Forsooth Joshua dwelled in that night in the midst of the people.

¹⁰And he rose early, and numbered his fellows, and he went up with the elder men in the front of the host, and was compassed with the help of fighters.

¹¹And when they had come, and had gone up against the city, they stood at the north coast of the city, betwixt the which city and them a valley was in the midst.