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Joshua 8:14 KJV
Joshua · chapter 8 · verse 14
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.Joshua 8:14 · King James Version
Joshua 8:14 in context
12And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
14And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
15And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- againstqirʼâhan encountering, accidental, friendly or hostileH7125 →
- hastedmâharproperly, to be liquid or flow easilyH4116 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- battlemilchâmâha battleH4421 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- earlyshâkamliterally, to load upH7925 →
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We have here an account of the taking of Ai by stratagem. The stratagem here used, we are sure, was lawful and good; God himself appointed it, and we have no reason to think but that the like is lawful and good in other wars. Here was no league broken, no treaty of peace, that the advantage was gained;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-22