The Bible Story - Volume IV - Basil Wolverton - 1964

Basil Wolverton

CONQUEST OF BETHEL AND AI, God's promise ro Joshua to help in a second attempt to conquer the Canaanite city of Ai swiftly brought Israel's leader out of his State of discouragement. Joshua immediately chose thirty thousand soldiers for the strategy he had in mind. Well-Planned Strategy. "I'm not sending you to directly attack Ai," Joshua informed the officers who were to be in command. "Late tonight you are to take your soldiers toward Ai. Guides will show you the way. Do not go far from the city. Go around it to the west side and conceal yourselves in the rugged country behind Ai toward Bethel, which is a few miles west of Ai. I shall send others before dawn. Be very careful that no one can be seen from Ai or from the city of Bethel to the west. I shall go with a few thousand to be in the valley just north of Ai when the sun comes up. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library