22. Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives.
23. But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
24. When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it.
25. Twelve thousand men and women fell that day – all the people of Ai.
26. For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had destroyed all who lived in Ai.
27. But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the Lord had instructed Joshua.