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Joshua 8:25-29

Joshua 8:25

So all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand—all the people of Ai.

Joshua 8:26

For Joshua did not withdraw his hand with which he reached out with the sword until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

Joshua 8:27

Israel took only the cattle and the spoils of that city as plunder for themselves, in accordance with the word of the Lord which He had commanded Joshua.

Joshua 8:28

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a refuse heap forever, a desolation until this day.

Joshua 8:29

And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; but at sunset Joshua gave the command and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and erected over it a large heap of stones that stands to this day.