8:1 And
the
LORD
said
to
Joshua,
"Do
not
fear
and
do
not
be
dismayed.
Take
all
the
fighting
men
with
you,
and
arise,
go
up
to
Ai.
See,
I
have
given
into
your
hand
the
king
of
Ai,
and
his
people,
his
city,
and
his
land.
8:2 And
you
shall
do
to
Ai
and
its
king
as
you
did
to
Jericho
and
its
king.
Only
its
spoil
and
its
livestock
you
shall
take
as
plunder
for
yourselves.
Lay
an
ambush
against
the
city,
behind
it."
8:3 So
Joshua
and
all
the
fighting
men
arose
to
go
up
to
Ai.
And
Joshua
chose
30,000
mighty
men
of
valor
and
sent
them
out
by
night.
8:4 And
he
commanded
them,
"Behold,
you
shall
lie
in
ambush
against
the
city,
behind
it.
Do
not
go
very
far
from
the
city,
but
all
of
you
remain
ready.
8:5 And
I
and
all
the
people
who
are
with
me
will
approach
the
city.
And
when
they
come
out
against
us
just
as
before,
we
shall
flee
before
them.
8:6 And
they
will
come
out
after
us,
until
we
have
drawn
them
away
from
the
city.
For
they
will
say,
'They
are
fleeing
from
us,
just
as
before.'
So
we
will
flee
before
them.
8:7 Then
you
shall
rise
up
from
the
ambush
and
seize
the
city,
for
the
LORD
your
God
will
give
it
into
your
hand.
8:8 And
as
soon
as
you
have
taken
the
city,
you
shall
set
the
city
on
fire.
You
shall
do
according
to
the
word
of
the
LORD.
See,
I
have
commanded
you."
8:9 So
Joshua
sent
them
out.
And
they
went
to
the
place
of
ambush
and
lay
between
Bethel
and
Ai,
to
the
west
of
Ai,
but
Joshua
spent
that
night
among
the
people.
8:10 Joshua
arose
early
in
the
morning
and
mustered
the
people
and
went
up,
he
and
the
elders
of
Israel,
before
the
people
to
Ai.
8:11 And
all
the
fighting
men
who
were
with
him
went
up
and
drew
near
before
the
city
and
encamped
on
the
north
side
of
Ai,
with
a
ravine
between
them
and
Ai.
8:12 He
took
about
5,000
men
and
set
them
in
ambush
between
Bethel
and
Ai,
to
the
west
of
the
city.
8:13 So
they
stationed
the
forces,
the
main
encampment
that
was
north
of
the
city
and
its
rear
guard
west
of
the
city.
But
Joshua
spent
that
night
in
the
valley.
8:14 And
as
soon
as
the
king
of
Ai
saw
this,
he
and
all
his
people,
the
men
of
the
city,
hurried
and
went
out
early
to
the
appointed
place
toward
the
Arabah
to
meet
Israel
in
battle.
But
he
did
not
know
that
there
was
an
ambush
against
him
behind
the
city.
8:15 And
Joshua
and
all
Israel
pretended
to
be
beaten
before
them
and
fled
in
the
direction
of
the
wilderness.
8:16 So
all
the
people
who
were
in
the
city
were
called
together
to
pursue
them,
and
as
they
pursued
Joshua
they
were
drawn
away
from
the
city.
8:17 Not
a
man
was
left
in
Ai
or
Bethel
who
did
not
go
out
after
Israel.
They
left
the
city
open
and
pursued
Israel.
8:18 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."
And
Joshua
stretched
out
the
javelin
that
was
in
his
hand
toward
the
city.
8:19 And
the
men
in
the
ambush
rose
quickly
out
of
their
place,
and
as
soon
as
he
had
stretched
out
his
hand,
they
ran
and
entered
the
city
and
captured
it.
And
they
hurried
to
set
the
city
on
fire.
8:20 So
when
the
men
of
Ai
looked
back,
behold,
the
smoke
of
the
city
went
up
to
heaven,
and
they
had
no
power
to
flee
this
way
or
that,
for
the
people
who
fled
to
the
wilderness
turned
back
against
the
pursuers.
8:21 And
when
Joshua
and
all
Israel
saw
that
the
ambush
had
captured
the
city,
and
that
the
smoke
of
the
city
went
up,
then
they
turned
back
and
struck
down
the
men
of
Ai.
8:22 And
the
others
came
out
from
the
city
against
them,
so
they
were
in
the
midst
of
Israel,
some
on
this
side,
and
some
on
that
side.
And
Israel
struck
them
down,
until
there
was
left
none
that
survived
or
escaped.
8:23 But
the
king
of
Ai
they
took
alive,
and
brought
him
near
to
Joshua.
8:24 When
Israel
had
finished
killing
all
the
inhabitants
of
Ai
in
the
open
wilderness
where
they
pursued
them,
and
all
of
them
to
the
very
last
had
fallen
by
the
edge
of
the
sword,
all
Israel
returned
to
Ai
and
struck
it
down
with
the
edge
of
the
sword.
8:25 And
all
who
fell
that
day,
both
men
and
women,
were
12,000,
all
the
people
of
Ai.
8:26 But
Joshua
did
not
draw
back
his
hand
with
which
he
stretched
out
the
javelin
until
he
had
devoted
all
the
inhabitants
of
Ai
to
destruction.
8:27 Only
the
livestock
and
the
spoil
of
that
city
Israel
took
as
their
plunder,
according
to
the
word
of
the
LORD
that
he
commanded
Joshua.
8:28 So
Joshua
burned
Ai
and
made
it
forever
a
heap
of
ruins,
as
it
is
to
this
day.
8:29 And
he
hanged
the
king
of
Ai
on
a
tree
until
evening.
And
at
sunset
Joshua
commanded,
and
they
took
his
body
down
from
the
tree
and
threw
it
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
the
city
and
raised
over
it
a
great
heap
of
stones,
which
stands
there
to
this
day.
8:30 At
that
time
Joshua
built
an
altar
to
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
on
Mount
Ebal,
8:31 just
as
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
had
commanded
the
people
of
Israel,
as
it
is
written
in
the
Book
of
the
Law
of
Moses,
"an
altar
of
uncut
stones,
upon
which
no
man
has
wielded
an
iron
tool."
And
they
offered
on
it
burnt
offerings
to
the
LORD
and
sacrificed
peace
offerings.
8:32 And
there,
in
the
presence
of
the
people
of
Israel,
he
wrote
on
the
stones
a
copy
of
the
law
of
Moses,
which
he
had
written.
8:33 And
all
Israel,
sojourner
as
well
as
native
born,
with
their
elders
and
officers
and
their
judges,
stood
on
opposite
sides
of
the
ark
before
the
Levitical
priests
who
carried
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
LORD,
half
of
them
in
front
of
Mount
Gerizim
and
half
of
them
in
front
of
Mount
Ebal,
just
as
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
had
commanded
at
the
first,
to
bless
the
people
of
Israel.
8:34 And
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.
8:35 There
was
not
a
word
of
all
that
Moses
commanded
that
Joshua
did
not
read
before
all
the
assembly
of
Israel,
and
the
women,
and
the
little
ones,
and
the
sojourners
who
lived
among
them.