Ai — Симфония — New Living Translation

Gen 12:8

After that, Abram traveled south and set up camp in the hill country, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built another altar and dedicated it to the LORD, and he worshiped the LORD.

Gen 13:3

From the Negev, they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, and they pitched their tents between Bethel and Ai, where they had camped before.

Josh 7:2

Joshua sent some of his men from Jericho to spy out the town of Ai, east of Bethel, near Beth-aven.

Josh 7:3

When they returned, they told Joshua, “There’s no need for all of us to go up there; it won’t take more than two or three thousand men to attack Ai. Since there are so few of them, don’t make all our people struggle to go up there.”

Josh 7:4

So approximately 3,000 warriors were sent, but they were soundly defeated. The men of Ai

Josh 8:1

1 Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take all your fighting men and attack Ai, for I have given you the king of Ai, his people, his town, and his land.

Josh 8:3

So Joshua and all the fighting men set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 of his best warriors and sent them out at night

Josh 8:5

When our main army attacks, the men of Ai will come out to fight as they did before, and we will run away from them.

Josh 8:9

So they left and went to the place of ambush between Bethel and the west side of Ai. But Joshua remained among the people in the camp that night.

Josh 8:10

Early the next morning Joshua roused his men and started toward Ai, accompanied by the elders of Israel.

Josh 8:11

All the fighting men who were with Joshua marched in front of the town and camped on the north side of Ai, with a valley between them and the town.

Josh 8:12

That night Joshua sent about 5,000 men to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the town.

Josh 8:14

When the king of Ai saw the Israelites across the valley, he and all his army hurried out early in the morning and attacked the Israelites at a place overlooking the Jordan Valley. But he didn’t realize there was an ambush behind the town.

Josh 8:17

There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not chase after the Israelites, and the town was left wide open.

Josh 8:18

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Point the spear in your hand toward Ai, for I will hand the town over to you.” Joshua did as he was commanded.

Josh 8:20

When the men of Ai looked behind them, smoke from the town was filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go. For the Israelites who had fled in the direction of the wilderness now turned on their pursuers.

Josh 8:21

When Joshua and all the other Israelites saw that the ambush had succeeded and that smoke was rising from the town, they turned and attacked the men of Ai.

Josh 8:22

Meanwhile, the Israelites who were inside the town came out and attacked the enemy from the rear. So the men of Ai were caught in the middle, with Israelite fighters on both sides. Israel attacked them, and not a single person survived or escaped.

Josh 8:23

Only the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.

Josh 8:24

When the Israelite army finished chasing and killing all the men of Ai in the open fields, they went back and finished off everyone inside.

Josh 8:25

So the entire population of Ai, including men and women, was wiped out that day — 12,000 in all.

Josh 8:26

For Joshua kept holding out his spear until everyone who had lived in Ai was completely destroyed.

Josh 8:28

So Joshua burned the town of Ai, and it became a permanent mound of ruins, desolate to this very day.

Josh 8:29

Joshua impaled the king of Ai on a sharpened pole and left him there until evening. At sunset the Israelites took down the body, as Joshua commanded, and threw it in front of the town gate. They piled a great heap of stones over him that can still be seen today.

Josh 9:3

But when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

Josh 10:1

1 Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua had captured and completely destroyed Ai and killed its king, just as he had destroyed the town of Jericho and killed its king. He also learned that the Gibeonites had made peace with Israel and were now their allies.

Josh 10:2

He and his people became very afraid when they heard all this because Gibeon was a large town — as large as the royal cities and larger than Ai. And the Gibeonite men were strong warriors.

Josh 12:9

The king of Jericho The king of Ai, near Bethel

Ezra 2:28

The people of Bethel and Ai223

Neh 7:32

The people of Bethel and Ai123

Jer 49:3

“Cry out, O Heshbon, for the town of Ai is destroyed. Weep, O people of Rabbah! Put on your clothes of mourning. Weep and wail, hiding in the hedges, for your god Molech, with his priests and officials, will be hauled off to distant lands.

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