ai And Joshua sent men from Jericho to {Ai}, which [is]

beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them,

saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and
viewed

Ai.

ai And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is]

beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them,

saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and
viewed

{Ai}.

ai And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let
not

all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go
up

and smite {Ai}; [and] make not all the people to labour thither;
for

they [are but] few.

ai So there went up thither of the people about three

thousand men: and they fled before the men of {Ai}.

ai And the men of {Ai} smote of them about thirty and
six

men: for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto

Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts
of

the people melted, and became as water.

ai And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be

thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise,
go

up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of {Ai}, and
his

people, and his city, and his land:

ai And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be

thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise,
go

up to {Ai}: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and
his

people, and his city, and his land:

ai And thou shalt do to {Ai} and her king as thou didst

unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle

thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an

ambush for the city behind it.

ai So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up

against {Ai}: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of

valour, and sent them away by night.

ai Joshua 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.

ai Joshua 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.

ai And 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}.

ai And all the people, [even the people] of war that

[were] with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the
city,

and pitched on the north side of Ai: now [there was] a valley

between them and {Ai}.

ai And all the people, [even the people] of war that

[were] with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the
city,

and pitched on the north side of {Ai}: now [there was] a valley

between them and Ai.

ai And he took about five thousand men, and set them
to

lie in ambush between Bethel and {Ai}, on the west side of the
city.

ai And it came to pass, when the king of {Ai} saw
[it],

that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went
out

against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time

appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that [there wer

e] liers in ambush against him behind the city.

ai And all the people that [were] in {Ai} were called

together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and

were drawn away from the city.

ai And there was not a man left in {Ai} or Bethel,
that

went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and
pursued

after Israel.

ai And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the
spear

that [is] in thy hand toward {Ai}; for I will give it into thine

hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that [he had] in his
hand

toward the city.

ai And when the men of {Ai} looked behind them, they
saw,

and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and
they

had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that
fled

to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

ai And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush
had

taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then
they

turned again, and slew the men of {Ai}.

ai And the king of {Ai} they took alive, and brought
him

to Joshua.

ai And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of

slaying all the inhabitants of {Ai} in the field, in the
wilderness

wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the
edge

of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the

Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the

sword.

ai And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of

slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness

wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the
edge

of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Is

raelites returned unto {Ai}, and smote it with the edge of the

sword.

ai And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day,
both

of men and women, [were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of

{Ai}.

ai For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he

stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the

inhabitants of {Ai}.

ai And Joshua burnt {Ai}, and made it an heap for
ever,

[even] a desolation unto this day.

ai And the king of {Ai} he hanged on a tree until

eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that

they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at
the

entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great h

eap of stones, [that remaineth] unto this day.

ai And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua

had done unto Jericho and to {Ai},

ai Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of
Jerusalem

had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it;
as

he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to {Ai} and
her

king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made p

eace with Israel, and were among them;

ai Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of
Jerusalem

had heard how Joshua had taken {Ai}, and had utterly destroyed
it;

as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and
her

king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made p

eace with Israel, and were among them;

ai That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a
great

city, as one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater
than

{Ai}, and all the men thereof [were] mighty.

ai The king of Jericho, one; the king of {Ai}, which
[is]

beside Bethel, one;

ai The men of Bethel and {Ai}, two hundred twenty and

three.

ai The men of Bethel and {Ai}, an hundred twenty and

three.

ai Howl, O Heshbon, for {Ai} is spoiled: cry, ye

daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to
and

fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and]
his

priests and his princes together.

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