25. And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
26. For Joshua drew not back his hand wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27. Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua.
28. So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.
29. And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.
30. Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord, the God of Israel, in mount Ebal,