Joshua 3:4
3:4 But stay about three thousand feet behind it. 1 Keep your distance 2 so you can see 3 which way you should go, for you have not traveled this way before.”
Joshua 6:9
6:9 Armed troops marched ahead of the priests blowing the horns, while the rear guard followed along behind the ark blowing rams’ horns.
Joshua 8:2
8:2 Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho 4 and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!”
Joshua 8:4
8:4 He told 5 them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!
1 tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in measurement.”
sn The precise distance is uncertain, but the measurement designated אַמָּה (’ammah, “cubit”) was probably equivalent to approximately eighteen inches (one and one-half feet, or 45 cm) in length.
2 tn Heb “do not approach it.”
3 tn Heb “know.”
4 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
5 tn Or “commanded, ordered.”