Joshua 8:2

the spoil thereof unlike the case of Jericho, is formally conceded to the Israelites.

an ambush "Put busshementis to the citye bihynde it," Wyclif. Literally a weaver, a lier in wait, from arab, to weave = "nectere insidias, struere dolos."

for the city behind it High up, probably in the main ravine between Ai and Bethel. "Ai must be somewhere between Michmash and Rimmon, a region greatly cut up with gorges and ravines; and as I passed from Beit-în toward Michmash, I could easily understand how Joshua's ambush of 5000 men could lie hid between Ai and Bethel." Thomson's Land and the Book, p. 671.