Joshua 8:10

10 Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up [with] the elders of Israel before the people of Ai.

Joshua 8:10 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 8:10

And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the
people
To see if there were any wanting, and to put them in proper order for their march:

and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai;
these elders were either the seventy elders who went with Joshua as council to him; or it may be rather they were inferior officers, who went at the head of their respective corps under them.

Joshua 8:10 In-Context

8 And when you capture the city you will set it on fire as Yahweh commanded. Look, I have commanded you."

9 So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the [place of the] ambush, and they sat between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent the night {with the people}.

10 Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up [with] the elders of Israel before the people of Ai.

11 {All the fighting men} who [were] with him {went up and drew near before the city} and camped north of Ai; [there was] a valley between him and Ai.

12 And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Footnotes

• [a] Or "before the presence of the people of Ai"