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Of the Wars: Caput VIII — The Second War, of Ai [Bellum II. Haiense]

Question III. Of how many kinds, how great, where, and when did Joshua place ambushes?

Joshua seems to have built a double ambush: one indeed in the position of the camp, another in the feigning of flight. And in the former, again, some of the Rabbis say there were two: one, which contained five thousand men, and were placed by night to the west of the city of Ai; the other, which — placed the next day, in the morning, toward the North — concealed thirty thousand men. But of these [see] above, in the commentary on the chapter.

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Nicolaus Serarius, S.J., “Question III. Of how many kinds, how great, where, and when did Joshua place ambushes?,” in Commentary on Joshua, Volume II, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/serarius-joshua-2/121-question-iii-of-how-many-kinds-how-great-where-and-when-/.

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