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Joshua 8:27-31

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.

Joshua 8:30

Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

Joshua 8:31

just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no one had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.