Joshua 8:12
He took five thousand men and set an ambush west of the city between Bethel and Ai.
Joshua 8:2-3
Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!"
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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.
Five thousand
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Five thousand
Joshua 8:2
Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!"
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Judges 9:25
The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting bandits in the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it.