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Joshua 8:7-9
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7 Then you rise up from your hiding place[a] and seize[b] the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you. 8 When you capture the city, set it[c] on fire in keeping with the Lord’s message. See, I have given you orders.”[d] 9 Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place[e] west of Ai, between Bethel and Ai.[f] Joshua spent that night with the army.[g]

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  1. Joshua 8:7 tn Heb “from the ambush.”
  2. Joshua 8:7 tn Heb “take possession of.”
  3. Joshua 8:8 tn Heb “the city.”
  4. Joshua 8:8 tn Heb “I have commanded you.”
  5. Joshua 8:9 tn Or “the place of ambush.”
  6. Joshua 8:9 tn Heb “and they stayed between Bethel and Ai, west of Ai.”
  7. Joshua 8:9 tn Heb “in the midst of the people.”
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Joshua 8:7-9
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7 Then you will jump up from your ambush and enter the city, for the Lord will give it to you. 8 Set the city on fire, as the Lord has commanded. You now have your instructions.”

9 So they left that night and lay in ambush between Bethel and the west side of Ai; but Joshua and the rest of the army remained in the camp at Jericho.

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