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.