1The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid,…
2You shall do to Ai and her king…
3So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to…
4He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie…
5I and all the people who are with…
6They will come out after us until we…
7and you shall rise up from the ambush,…
8It shall be, when you have seized the…
9Joshua sent them out; and they went to…
10Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered…
11All the people, even the men of war…
12He took about five thousand men, and set…
13So they set the people, even all the…
14When the king of Ai saw it, they…
15Joshua and all Israel made as if they…
16All the people who were in the city…
17There was not a man left in Ai…
18The LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out the…
19The ambush arose quickly out of their place,…
20When the men of Ai looked behind them,…
21When Joshua and all Israel saw that the…
22The others came out of the city against…
23They captured the king of Ai alive, and…
24When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants…
25All that fell that day, both of men…
26For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with…
27Israel took for themselves only the livestock and…
28So Joshua burned Ai and made it a…
29He hanged the king of Ai on a…
30Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD,…
31as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded…
32He wrote there on the stones a copy…
33All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges,…
34Afterward he read all the words of the…
35There was not a word of all that…
