Joshua 7:2; Joshua 7:3; Joshua 7:4; Joshua 7:5; Joshua 8:1; Joshua 8:2; Joshua 8:3; Joshua 8:9; Joshua 8:10; Joshua 8:11; Joshua 8:12; Joshua 8:14; Joshua 8:17; Joshua 8:18; Joshua 8:20; Joshua 8:21; Joshua 8:23; Joshua 8:24; Joshua 8:25; Joshua 8:26; Joshua 8:28; Joshua 8:29; Joshua 9:3; Joshua 10:1; Joshua 10:2; Joshua 12:9

Joshua 7:2

2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, "Go up and spy out the land." So the men went up and spied out Ai.

Joshua 7:3

3 They returned to Joshua and said to him, "Do not let all the people go up; only about two or three thousand men need go up to Ai; do not make all the people toil up there, for they are few."

Joshua 7:4

4 So about three thousand men from the people went up there, but they fled from the men of Ai.

Joshua 7:5

5 The men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of their men, and pursued them from the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them down on the descent, so the hearts of the people melted and became as water.

Joshua 8:1

1 Now the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.

Joshua 8:2

2 "You shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoil and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."

Joshua 8:3

3 So Joshua rose with all the people of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night.

Joshua 8:9

9 So Joshua sent them away, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.

Joshua 8:10

10 Now Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people to Ai.

Joshua 8:11

11 Then all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and arrived in front of the city, and camped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.

Joshua 8:12

12 And he took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

Joshua 8:14

14 It came about when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

Joshua 8:17

17 So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they left the city unguarded and pursued Israel.

Joshua 8:18

18 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." So Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

Joshua 8:20

20 When the men of Ai turned back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.

Joshua 8:21

21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and slew the men of Ai.

Joshua 8:23

23 But they took alive the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.

Joshua 8:24

24 Now when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 8:25

25 All who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000 -all the people of Ai.

Joshua 8:26

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

Joshua 8:28

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

Joshua 8:29

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

Joshua 9:3

3 When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

Joshua 10:1

1 Now it came about when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai, and had utterly destroyed it (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king ), and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were within their land,

Joshua 10:2

2 that he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

Joshua 12:9

9 the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;