TSK · Joshua 8:4

All the reinforcements in Ai were ordered to chase them; they chased Joshua and were lured away from the city.

Now, come up at night with your men and set an ambush in the field outside the city.

All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.

Here is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt.

The king got up in the night and said to his advisers,“I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know we are starving, so they left the camp and hid in the field, thinking,‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and enter the city.’”

So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, but a poor man’s wisdom is despised; no one ever listens to his advice.