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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF JOS 8:1 (B.C. 1451.) Joshua assails Ai with his whole forces.
Then the EVER-LIVING said to Joshua, "Fear not! and do not delay to take all the forces with you to the war, but advance upon Ai, for I will give the king of Ai to your hand, with his people and city and land,
RF JOS 8:2 when you shall do to Ai and her king, as you did to Jeriko and her king; except that you may plunder the booty for yourselves. Place an ambush behind the town."
RF JOS 8:3 Joshua and all the forces consequently advanced to the war, ascending to Ai. Joshua, however, selected thirty thousand men, the best of the army, and sent them by night,
RF JOS 8:4 instructing them thus;—" Be careful to lie in ambush behind the town, not very far from the city. And all of you be steady.
RF JOS 8:5 While I and the main body of the forces with me will advance to the town, and when they come to oppose us, as formerly, we will retreat before them,
RF JOS 8:6 so that they may follow after us till we separate them from the city. For they will say 'We are driving them before us, as we formerly drove them before us.'
RF JOS 8:7 Then you must rise up from the ambush, and rush into the town;—for your EVER-LIVING GOD will give it to your hand
RF JOS 8:8 But when you have seized the place, set the city on fire, as the EVER-LIVING commands you to do.—Mind I have instructed you!"
RF JOS 8:9 Joshua despatched them thus, and they went to the ambuscade, and halted there between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua remained that night in the midst of the forces.
RF JOS 8:10 Joshua, however, arose at daybreak and brigaded the army, and he and the officers of Israel advanced against Ai,
RF JOS 8:11 and the whole body of the army that was with him advanced, and approached, and came near to the city, to assail Ai from the north. Now there was a valley between them and Ai.
RF JOS 8:12 He had previously taken about five thousand men, and placed them in ambush between Bethel and Ai on the west of the town.
RF JOS 8:13 Thus the main body of the army rested on the north of the town, with its ambuscade at the west of the city, whilst Joshua marched by night through the valley.
RF JOS 8:14 But when the king of Ai perceived it, he hastened and arose, and the man came out of Ai to oppose Israel in battle with all his forces in the open plain. But he knew not of the ambush behind the city.
RF JOS 8:15 Joshua and his Israelite army, however, retreated before them, and retired towards the desert.
RF JOS 8:16 Then all the people who were in the town shouted to run after them; so they ran after Joshua, and separated themselves from the city,
RF JOS 8:17 and there was not a man left in Ai and Bethel, who did not go out after Israel; thus they left the city unguarded to chase after Israel.
RF JOS 8:18 Then the EVER-LIVING said to Joshua; "Extend the javelin that is in your hand towards Ai, for I will give it into your power." So Joshua extended the javelin which was in his hand to the city,
RF JOS 8:19 and the ambush arose immediately from its place, and ran with outstretched hand to the town, and captured it, and instantly fired the city.
RF JOS 8:20 Then the men of Ai turned and looked, and saw the smoke go up from the city to the sky, and that there was no direction in which they could fly, one way or the other; so our forces, retreating to the desert, turned from their retreat,
RF JOS 8:21 when Joshua and the Israelite army saw that the ambuscaders had captured the city, because the smoke went up from the town,—they turned and charged on to the men of Ai, and the others came out from the city to attack them.
RF JOS 8:22 Thus they were with Israel on both sides, front and rear, and they fought until only a remnant fled and escaped.
RF JOS 8:23 But the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua,
RF JOS 8:24 and when Israel had finished slaying all the people of Ai in the field of the desert to which they had fled, and all had fallen to death by the edge of the sword—the army of Israel turned back to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword;
RF JOS 8:25 and the number who fell on that day, of men and women, were twelve thousand,—all people of Ai,—
RF JOS 8:26 for Joshua did not withdraw his hand with the extended javelin until they had destroyed all the population of Ai.
RF JOS 8:27 However the cattle and the furniture of the town Israel plundered for themselves, as the EVER-LIVING had said, when He instructed Joshua.
RF JOS 8:28 Joshua also burnt Ai, and made it a ruin for ever, (as it is to this day,)
RF JOS 8:29 and he hung the king of Ai on a tree until the dusk. But when the sun went down Joshua commanded and they lowered the corpse from the tree, and laid it at the open gate of the city, and piled upon it a great heap of stones. (They remain to this day.)
RF JOS 8:30 Joshua builds an alter on Mt. Ebal.
Afterwards Joshua built an altar to the EVER-LIVING GOD of Israel on Mount Ebal,
RF JOS 8:31 as Moses the servant of the EVER-LIVING commanded the children of Israel, and such as Moses described in the Book of the Law for the children of Israel, of Whole Stones, to which no chisel had been applied, and he offered upon it a Burnt Offering to the EVER-LIVING, and sacrificed a Thankoffering.
RF JOS 8:32 He also carved upon the stones there a copy of the Law of Moses, which he wrote for the sons of Israel.
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1 The words In brackets are an editor's notes.—F.F.
RF JOS 8:33 Then the army of Israel, and the senators, and officers, and judges stood on each side of the Ark, next to the priests and Levites, who carried the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, together with the foreigners and natives, on Mount Gherizim, and half on Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the EVER-LIVING commanded, to bless the Nation of Israel at the start.
RF JOS 8:34 After that he read the whole of the Law of Blessing and Cursing, with all that was written in the Book of the Law.
RF JOS 8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the Parliament of Israel, with the men and children, and the foreigners who marched with them.




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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