Joshua 8:23-29 ▼

23 and they have caught the king of Ai alive, and bring him near to Joshua.

24 And it comes to pass, at Israel’s finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them (and all of them fall by the mouth of the sword until their consumption), that all of Israel turns back to Ai, and strikes it by the mouth of the sword;

25 and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand—all men of Ai.

26 And Joshua has not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin until he has devoted all the inhabitants of Ai;

27 only the livestock and the spoil of that city has Israel spoiled for themselves, according to the word of YHWH which He commanded Joshua.

28 And Joshua burns Ai, and makes it a continuous heap—a desolation to this day;

29 and he has hanged the king of Ai on the tree until evening, and at the going in of the sun Joshua has commanded, and they take down his carcass from the tree, and cast it to the opening of the gate of the city, and raise a great heap of stones over it until this day.