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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.
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."
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.
4
He commanded
them, saying,
"See,
you are going to ambush
the city
from behind
it. Do not go
very
far
from
the city
,
but all
of you be ready.
5
"Then I and all
the people
who
are with me will approach
the city.
And when
they come
out to meet
us as at the first,
we will flee
before
them.
6
"They will come
out after
us until
we have drawn them away
from the city,
for they will say,
'They are fleeing
before
us as at the first.'
So we will flee
before
them.
7
"And you shall rise
from your ambush
and take possession
of the city,
for the LORD
your God
will deliver
it into your hand.
8
"Then it will be when you have seized
the city
,
that you shall set
the city
on fire.
You shall do
it according to the word
of the LORD.
See,
I have commanded
you."
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.
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.
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.
12
And he took
about 5,000
men
and set
them in ambush
between
Bethel
and Ai,
on the west side
of the city.
13
So they stationed
the people,
all
the army
that was on the north side
of the city,
and its rear guard
on the west side
of the city,
and Joshua
spent
that night
in the midst
of the v
all
ey.
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.
15
Joshua
and all
Israel
pretended to be beaten
before
them, and fled
by the way
of the wilderness.
16
And all
the people
who
were in the city
were called together
to pursue
them, and they pursued
Joshua
and were drawn away
from the city.
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.
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.
19
The men in ambush
rose
quickly
from their place,
and when he had stretched
out his hand,
they ran
and entered
the city
and captured
it, and they
quickly
set
the city
on fire.
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.
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.
22
The others
came
out from the city
to encounter
them, so that they were trapped in the midst
of Israel,
some
on this
side
and
some
on that
side
;
and they slew
them until
no
one was left
of those who survived
or escaped.
23
But they took
alive
the king
of Ai
and brought
him to Joshua.
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 f
all
en
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
.
25
All
who fell
that day,
both
men
and wo
men
,
were 12,000--
all
the people
of Ai.
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.
27
Israel
took
only
the cattle
and the spoil
of that city
as plunder
for themselves, according to the word
of the LORD
which
He had commanded
Joshua.
28
So Joshua
burned
Ai
and made
it a heap
forever,
a desolation
until
this
day.
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.
30
Then
Joshua
built
an altar
to the LORD,
the God
of Israel,
in Mount
Ebal,
31
just
as Moses
the servant
of the LORD
had commanded
the sons
of Israel,
as it is written
in the book
of the law
of Moses,
an altar
of uncut
stones
on which
no
man had wielded
an iron
tool; and they offered
burnt offerings
on it to the LORD,
and sacrificed
peace offerings.
32
He wrote
there
on the stones
a copy
of the law
of Moses,
which
he had written,
in the presence
of the sons
of Israel.
33
All
Israel
with their elders
and officers
and their judges
were standing
on both
sides
of
the ark
before
the Levitical
priests
who carried
the ark
of the covenant
of the LORD
,
the stranger
as well as the native.
Half
of them stood in front
of Mount
Gerizim
and half
of them in front
of Mount
Ebal,
just
as Moses
the servant
of the LORD
had given command
at first
to bless
the people
of
Israel
.
34
Then afterward
he read
all
the words
of the law,
the blessing
and the curse,
according to
all
that is written
in the book
of the law.
35
There was not a word
of
all
that Moses
had commanded
which
Joshua
did not read
before
all
the assembly
of Israel
with the women
and the little ones
and the strangers
who were living
among
them.
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