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22 And the others went out of the city to meet them; so the men of Ai were caught in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape. 23 And they took the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua. 24 And when Israel had finished slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when all of them had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, then all Israel returned to Ai and smote it with the edge of the sword. 25 And so it was, that twelve thousand men and women, all the inhabitants of Ai, fell that day. Joshua 8:22-25, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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