YuēShūyàjì 8:3

3 Yúshì , Yuēshūyà hé yīqiè bīng dīng dōu qǐlai , yào shàng Aì chéng qù . Yuēshūyà xuǎn le sān wàn dà néng de yǒng shì , yè jiàn dǎfa tāmen qián wǎng ,

YuēShūyàjì 8:3 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against
Ai
As the Lord had commanded him:

and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour;
out of all the men of war; these were a select company, picked men, not the whole army, as some have thought, for he was ordered to take all the people of war, as he did:

and sent them away by night;
from the main army, that they might pass the city and get behind it undiscovered, for they were sent for an ambush; and of these some were to take the city, and be left in it to burn it, and some to smite the men of Ai, as Abarbinel notes.

YuēShūyàjì 8:3 In-Context

1 Yēhéhuá duì Yuēshūyà shuō , búyào jùpà , yĕ búyào jīng huáng . nǐ qǐlai , shuaìlǐng yīqiè bīng dīng shàng Aì chéng qù , wǒ yǐjing bǎ Aì chéng de wáng hé tāde mín , tāde chéng , bìng tāde dì , dōu jiāo zaì nǐ shǒu lǐ .

2 Nǐ zĕnyàng daì Yēlìgē hé Yēlìgē de wáng , yĕ dàng zhàoyàng daì Aì chéng hé Aì chéng de wáng . zhǐshì chéng neì suǒ duó de cáiwù hé shēngchù , nǐmen kĕyǐ qǔ wéi zìjǐ de lue wù . nǐ yào zaì chéng hòu shè xià fú bīng .

3 Yúshì , Yuēshūyà hé yīqiè bīng dīng dōu qǐlai , yào shàng Aì chéng qù . Yuēshūyà xuǎn le sān wàn dà néng de yǒng shì , yè jiàn dǎfa tāmen qián wǎng ,

4 Fēnfu tāmen shuō , nǐmen yào zaì chéng hòu máifu , bùkĕ lí chéng taì yuǎn , dōu yào gèzì zhúnbeì .

5 Wǒ yǔ wǒ suǒ daìlǐng de zhòng mín yào xiàng chéng qián wǎng . chéng lǐ de rén xiàng chū cì chūlai gōngjī wǒmen de shíhou , wǒmen jiù zaì tāmen miànqián taópǎo ,