H9001–/וַ–v

So they set the people, even all the host who was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait who were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

וַיָּשִׂ֨ימוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”

It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

וַיְהִ֞י (וַ) va “and”וַֽיְמַהֲר֡וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּשְׁכִּ֡ימוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּצְא֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

וַיִּנָּֽגְע֛וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּנֻ֖סוּ (וַ) va “and”

All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

וַיִּזָּעֲק֗וּ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּרְדְּפוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיִּנָּתְק֖וּ (וַ) va “and”

There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

וַיַּעַזְב֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּרְדְּפ֖וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּ֧ט (וַ) va “and”

The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.

וַיָּר֙וּצוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּבֹ֥אוּ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּלְכְּד֑וּהָ (וַֽ) va “and”וַֽיְמַהֲר֔וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיַּצִּ֥יתוּ (וַ) va “and”

When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

וַיִּפְנ֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּרְא֗וּ (וַ) va “and”

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.

וַיָּשֻׁ֕בוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּכּ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”

The others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּכּ֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

The king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

וַיַּקְרִ֥בוּ (וַ) va “and”

It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

וַיְהִ֣י (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּפְּל֥וּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַיָּשֻׁ֤בוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּכּ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

וַיְהִי֩ (וַ) va “and”

So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף (וַ) va “and”וַיְשִׂימֶ֤הָ (וַ) va “and”

The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, to this day.

וַיֹּרִ֧ידוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּשְׁלִ֤יכוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיָּקִ֤ימוּ (וַ) va “and”

as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace-offerings.

וַיַּעֲל֨וּ (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּזְבְּח֖וּ (וַֽ) va “and”

He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.

וַיִּכְתָּב־ (וַ) va “and”

It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;

וַיְהִ֣י (וַ) va “and”

that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

וַיִּֽתְקַבְּצ֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wine-skins, old and torn and bound up,

וַיַּעֲשׂ֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֵּלְכ֖וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּצְטַיָּ֑רוּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְח֞וּ (וַ) va “and”

They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make you a covenant with us.

וַיֵּלְכ֧וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ (וַ) va “and”

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, What if you dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

They said to Joshua, We are your servants. Joshua said to them, Who are you? and from whence come you?

וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

They said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of the name of Yahweh your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants: and now make you a covenant with us.

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֤ם (וַ) va. “and”