Joshua 8:12

He took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Joshua 8:2-3

And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it."

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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
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it."

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Judges 9:25
And the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way. And it was told to Abimelech.

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