Joshua 8:8
King James Version
“And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.”
Context
5And I, and all the people that with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
6(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
7Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
8And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
9Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
10And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
11And all the people, of war that with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now a valley between them and Ai.