and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
008:014 It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried
and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against
Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed,
before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush
against him behind the city.
008:015 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them,
and fled by the way of the wilderness.
008:016 All the people who were in the city were called together
to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua,
and were drawn away from the city.
008:017 There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't
go out after Israel: and they left the city open,
and pursued after Israel.
008:018 Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in
your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand.
Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand
toward the city.
008:019 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon
as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city,
and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.
008:020 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold,
the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no
power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled
to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
008:021 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city,
and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again,
and killed the men of Ai.
008:022 The others came forth out of the city against them;
so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side,
and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they
let none of them remain or escape.
008:023 The king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
008:024 It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the
inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they
pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword,
until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai,
and struck it with the edge of the sword.
008:025 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand,
even all the men of Ai.
008:026 For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched
out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the
inhabitants of Ai.
008:027 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took
for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh
which he commanded Joshua.
008:028 So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation,
to this day.
008:029 The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening:
and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they