Teks -- Joshua 8:12 (NET)

8:12 He took five thousand men and set an ambush west of the city between Bethel and Ai.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jos 8:12 - And he took

Or rather, but he had taken, namely, out of the said number of thirty thousand, for this is added by way of recapitulation and farther explication of what is said in general, Jos 8:9.

JFB: Jos 8:11-14 - there was a valley between them and Ai

Literally, "the valley."

TSK: Jos 8:12 - five thousand // of the city

five thousand : Jos 8:2, Jos 8:3

of the city : or, of Ai

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jos 8:12 - And he took

And he took or, rather, but he had taken , to wit, out of the said number of thirty thousand, for this is added by way of recapitulation and further explication of what is said in general, Jos 8:9 .

Haydock: Jos 8:12 - Five thousand

Five thousand. These were part of the 30,000 mentioned above, ver. 3 . (Challoner) ---

Josue had given orders to have them placed in ambush apart; (Calmet) unless, perhaps, he places these himself in some secret place. (Haydock)

Gill: Jos 8:12 - And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush // between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city

And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush,.... This was another ambush, as both Jarchi and Kimchi observe; and the latter adds, perhaps he set them nearer the city than the former; though some are of opinion that these are the same ambush spoken of, whose number is here given, being set on the same side of the city; and they suppose that Joshua had with him but thirty thousand men in all, five thousand of which he sent to lie in ambush, and the other twenty five thousand remained with him; but it seems clear that all the men of war were to be taken, and were taken by them, and that out of them thirty thousand were sent by him to lie in wait at first, and now five thousand more:

between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city; and though they were on the same side of the city with the first and larger ambush, yet, as Abarbinel observes, they might be set nearer the city and to the army; and he supposes the first ambush was to take the city, and the second little ambush, as he calls it, was placed, that when the men of the city came out, they might make a noise and a stir, and skirmish with them, that so they might not come upon the camp suddenly.