1Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not…
2And you shall do to Ai and its…
3So Joshua and the whole army set out…
4with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to…
5Then I and all the troops with me…
6They will pursue us until we have drawn…
7you are to rise from the ambush and…
8And when you have taken the city, set…
9So Joshua sent them out, and they went…
10Joshua got up early the next morning and…
11Then all the troops who were with him…
12Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men…
13So the forces were stationed with the main…
14When the king of Ai saw the Israelites,…
15Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten…
16Then all the men of Ai were summoned…
17Not a man was left in Ai or…
18Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out…
19and as soon as he did so, the…
20When the men of Ai turned and looked…
21When Joshua and all Israel saw that the…
22Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of…
23But they took the king of Ai alive…
24When Israel had finished killing all the men…
25A total of twelve thousand men and women…
26Joshua did not draw back the hand that…
27Israel took for themselves only the cattle and…
28So Joshua burned Ai and made it a…
29He hung the king of Ai on a…
30At that time Joshua built an altar on…
31just as Moses the servant of the LORD…
32And there in the presence of the Israelites,…
33All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their…
34Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of…
35There was not a word of all that…
