Joshua 8:23-29

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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. 27 ^aIsrael took only the cattle and the spoil of that city as plunder for themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which He had commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it ^aa heap forever, a desolation until this day. 29 ^aAnd he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave a 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.