³² While the Benjamites were saying, “We are defeating them as before,”^(A) the Israelites were saying, “Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.”

¹⁵ Joshua and all Israel let themselves be driven back^(A) before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.^{(B) 16} All the men of Ai were called to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away^(C) from the city.