Joshua 8:7
7Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will give it into your hand.Joshua 8:9
9So Joshua sent them out. And they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night among the people.Joshua 8:12
12He took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.Joshua 8:14
14And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place ▼▼Hebrew appointed time
toward bthe Arabah to meet Israel in battle. cBut he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. Joshua 8:19
19And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it. And they hurried to set the city on fire.Judges 20:29-33
29 dSo Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah. 30And the people of Israel went up against the people of Benjamin on the third day and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. 31And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, eone of which goes up to fBethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel. 32And the people of Benjamin said, g“They are routed before us, as at the first.” But the people of Israel said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.” 33And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar, and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place from Maareh-geba. ▼▼Some Septuagint manuscripts place west of Geba
2 Chronicles 13:13
13Jeroboam had sent ian ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops ▼▼Hebrew they
were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them. 2 Chronicles 20:22
22And when they began to sing and praise, the Lord set kan ambush against the men of lAmmon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah, so that they were routed.Jeremiah 51:12
12 m“Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon;nmake the watch strong;
set up watchmen;
prepare the ambushes;
ofor the Lord has both planned and done
what he spoke concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.
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