⁹ Then Joshua sent the men away. They went and they hid on the west side of Ai, between Bethel and Ai. But Joshua stayed with his other soldiers that night.

¹⁰ Early the next morning, Joshua took the army to march towards Ai. He and the leaders of Israel marched in front. ¹¹ The soldiers who were with Joshua marched up to the city. They stopped in front of it, on the north side. They put up their tents there, where there was a valley between them and the city.