Joshua 8:16-26

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16 And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and ^awere drawn away from the city. 17 So not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they forsook the city, leaving it open, and pursued Israel.
18 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “^aStretch 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 Then 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 Then the men of Ai turned ¹back and looked, and 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 But Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended. So they turned back and struck down the men of Ai. 22 ¹And the others came out from the city to meet them, so that they were trapped in the midst of Israel, ²some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them down until ³there was ^ano one remaining for him who survived or escaped. 23 But they seized the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
24 Now it happened that when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them fell by the edge of the sword until they were completely destroyed, then all Israel turned back to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. 25 ^aSo all who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000—all the ¹people of Ai. 26 For Joshua ^adid not withdraw his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted to destruction all the inhabitants of Ai.

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