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He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.

וְהָעַ֣י (עַ֣י) 'Ai “Ai”

He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

הָעָֽי׃ (עָֽי) 'Ai “Ai”

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai.

הָעַ֞י (עַ֞י) 'Ai “Ai”הָעָֽי׃ (עָֽי) 'Ai “Ai”

They returned to Joshua, and said to him, Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai; don't make all the people to toil there; for they are but few.

הָעָ֑י (עָ֑י) 'Ai “Ai”

So there went up there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

הָעָֽי׃ (עָֽי) 'Ai “Ai”

The men of Ai struck of them about thirty-six men; and they chased them [supplied: from] before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

הָעַ֗י (עַ֗י) 'Ai “Ai”

Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai; behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land;

הָעָ֑י (עָ֑י) 'Ai “Ai”הָעַי֙ (עַי֙) 'Ai “Ai”

You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only the spoil of it, and the cattle of it, shall you take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the city behind it.

לָעַ֜י (עַ֜י) 'Ai “Ai”

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.

הָעָ֑י (עָ֑י) 'Ai “Ai”

Joshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

הָעַ֖י (עַ֖י) 'Ai “Ai”לָעָ֑י (עָ֑י) 'Ai “Ai”

Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

הָעָֽי׃ (עָֽי) 'Ai “Ai”

All the people, [supplied: even] the [supplied: men of] war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between him and Ai.

לָעַ֔י (עַ֔י) 'Ai “Ai”הָעָֽי׃ (עָֽי) 'Ai “Ai”

He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

הָעַ֖י (עַ֖י) 'Ai “Ai”

It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

הָעַ֗י (עַ֗י) 'Ai “Ai”

All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

בָּעַ֔י (עַ֔י) 'ir “Ai”

There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

בָּעַי֙ (עַי֙) 'Ai “Ai”

Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

הָעַ֔י (עַ֔י) 'Ai “Ai”

When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

הָעַ֨י (עַ֨י) 'Ai “Ai”

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.

הָעָֽי׃ (עָֽי) 'Ai “Ai”

The king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

הָעַ֖י (עַ֖י) 'Ai “Ai”

It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

הָעַ֜י (עַ֜י) 'Ai “Ai”הָעַ֔י (עַ֔י) 'Ai “Ai”

All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

הָעָֽי׃ (עָֽי) 'Ai “Ai”

For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

הָעָֽי׃ (עָֽי) 'Ai “Ai”

So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

הָעָ֑י (עָ֑י) 'Ai “Ai”

The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, to this day.

הָעַ֛י (עַ֛י) 'Ai “Ai”