Joshua 8:4
And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up your position secretly at the back of the town: do not go very far away, and let all of you be ready:
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Joshua 8:4
And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up your position secretly at the back of the town: do not go very far away, and let all of you be ready:
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Joshua 8:2
And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.
Joshua 8:3
So Joshua and the fighting-men got ready to go up against Ai; and Joshua took thirty thousand men of war, and sent them out by night.
Joshua 8:9
So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.
Joshua 8:12
And taking about five thousand men, he put them in position for a surprise attack on the west side of Ai, between Beth-el and Ai.
Joshua 8:13
So all the people were in their places, the army on the north side of the town and the secret force on the west; and that night Joshua went down into the valley.
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Joshua 8:5
And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;
Joshua 8:6
And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;
Joshua 8:7
Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God will give it up into your hands.
Joshua 8:8
And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the Lord has said: see, I have given you your orders.
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Judges 20:29
So Israel put men secretly all round Gibeah to make a surprise attack on it.
Judges 9:25
And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.
2 Samuel 5:23
And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees.
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