The leaders of Shechem set up an ambush against Abimelech on the hilltops, and they robbed all who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be rea