ヨシュア記 8:9-13 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 8:10

And numbered the people. Or reviewed, or mustered. The word is frequently translated visited in Scripture. It then came to mean a visit for the sake of inspection. The elders of Israel. Joshua's council, alike of war and of peace. Before the people. Literally, in their sight (ford πρόσωπον , LXX ), i.e; at their head. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 8:11

And all the people, even the people of war that were with him. Literally, all the people, the war that were with him. Probably the word אִישׁ has been omitted by an early copyist. Implying, no doubt, that the non-warlike portion of the community had been left under a guard at Jericho (see also Joshua 8:1 ). On the north side. Joshua made a detour, and encamped on a hill on the other side of the wady. Now there was a valley. Literally, and the valley was. This valley, the Wady... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 8:12

And he took about five thousand men (see above, Joshua 8:3 ). We must translate had taken. The repetition is quite in the manner of the Hebrew writers. This passage is of course, according to the Jehovist and Elohist theory, "quite irreconeilable" with the rest of the narrative. So we are told that this is a Jehovistic interpolation (Knobel). Of the city. The Masorites and LXX . prefer the reading Ai ( i.e; עַי for עִיר ), in the margin of our Bibles, to that in the text,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 8:13

And when they had set. This may mean the leaders of the detachment of 30,000. Joshua does not appear to have been with them, for he is not mentioned till the latter part of the verse (see note on verse 3). Joshua went that night. Having made all his dispositions, he descended in the evening from his vantage ground on the hill into the plain, so as to invite attack in the morning, a stratagem which (see next verse) was completely successful. Some MSS ; however, have וַיָּלֶן "and he... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 8:10

Numbered the people - Rather, perhaps, “mustered” or “arrayed” them for their march. The distance from the camp at Gilgal to Ai is about fifteen miles. In the evening of the day after the despatch of the 5,000 liers in wait, Joshua and the host might make their appearance in the neighborhood of the city. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 8:12

He took - Rather “had taken;” the words refer to the ambuscade which Joshua had detached during the previous night. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 8:13

Joshua went down by night into the valley where He would be seen at daylight by the men of Ai, and was accompanied no doubt by a picked body of troops. The king of Ai, in the morning, would see neither the ambush in his rear, nor the whole of the great host of Israel among the hills away to the north on his left; but supposing, as it appears, that the Israelites before him were a body detached as on the former occasion to assail his city, he sallied out promptly to attack them. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 8:10

Joshua 8:10. Joshua numbered the people Not all the people, which was needless, and would now have required more time than could have been spared, but that part of the army which he designed to take with him. And this, it seems, he did, that it might be evident the conquest of Ai was effected without any loss of men, and that they might be encouraged hereby to trust in God, and proceed resolutely and boldly in the work of subduing the Canaanites. The elders of Israel Their chief... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 8:12

Joshua 8:12. He took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush Here commentators are divided. The learned Bishop Patrick, with many others, (see Le Clerc and Calmet,) has given it as his opinion, that, besides the thirty thousand whom Joshua had sent off before to lie in ambush, (Joshua 8:3-4,) he now detached five thousand more to guard the roads, and intercept such as might endeavour to save themselves by flight; or to strengthen those that were first sent and that he... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 8:1-35

Victory in central Canaan (8:1-9:27)Now that the Israelites had removed the cause of their defeat, God promised Joshua victory over Ai. He added that on this occasion the Israelites could keep the plunder for themselves (8:1-2).Even with God’s assurance of victory, Joshua planned the attack thoroughly. One company of soldiers was to draw the men of Ai out of the city to fight, then a second company would come out of hiding to attack Ai from the rear (3-9). The plan worked perfectly. When the... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 8:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 8:11

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 8:12

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 8:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 8:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 8:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 8:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 8:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 8:12

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 8:1-35

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