¹³ Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah the ambush^(A) was behind them.

⁹ Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush^(A) and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai—but Joshua spent that night with the people.

⁴ with these orders: “Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.

²² As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes^(A) against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.