Numbers 31:2-6
2 a“Avenge the people of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall bbe gathered to your people.” 3So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian to execute the Lord’s vengeance on Midian. 4You shall send a thousand from each of the tribes of Israel to the war.” 5So there were provided, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand carmed for war. 6And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and dthe trumpets for the alarm in his hand.Joshua 8:1-8
The Fall of Ai
1And the Lord said to Joshua, e“Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, fI have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land. 2And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did gto Jericho and its king. Only hits spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”3So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out by night. 4And he commanded them, “Behold, iyou shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready. 5And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us jjust as before, we shall flee before them. 6And they will come out after us, until we have kdrawn them away from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, just as before.’ So we will flee before them. 7Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will give it into your hand. 8And as soon as you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of the Lord. lSee, I have commanded you.”
Judges 1:1-2
The Continuing Conquest of Canaan
1After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel minquired of the Lord, n“Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?” 2The Lord said, “Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand.”1 Samuel 15:3
3Now go and strike Amalek and odevote to destruction ▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verses 8, 9, 15, 18, 20, 21
all that they have. Do not spare them, qbut kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” 1 Samuel 15:18
18And the Lord sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’
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