² Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.

¹² And their limit on the north was from the Jordan, and the line goes up to the side of Jericho on the north and through the hill-country to the west, ending at the waste land of Beth-aven.

¹⁵ Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.

²³ So the Lord made Israel safe that day: and the fight went over to Beth-aven.

⁵ And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

¹⁵ Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

¹⁶ See, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

⁶ For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.

¹⁸ Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.

³¹ And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,

⁹ The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Beth-el, one;

¹ Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim secretly, with the purpose of searching out the land, and Jericho. So they went and came to the house of a loose woman of the town, named Rahab, where they took their rest for the night.

¹⁹ And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.

⁸ And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.