1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed:
3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai:
4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait
7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city:
8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set
9 Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush,
10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people,
11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him,
12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in
13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on
14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted
15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before
16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue
17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out
18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in
19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as
20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold,
21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the
22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were
23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all
25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and
26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the
27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey
28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a
29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as
30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount
32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses,
33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges,
34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and
35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua