H5892B–עִיר–ir

The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Yahweh: only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

הָעִ֥יר (עִ֥יר) 'Ir “city”

So the people shouted, and [ergänzt: the priests] blew the trumpets; and it happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

הָעִ֙ירָה֙ (עִ֙ירָ) 'I.ra “city”הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

בָּעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

They burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh.

וְהָעִ֛יר (עִ֛יר) 'Ir “city”

Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Yahweh, that rises up and builds this city Jericho: with the loss of his firstborn shall he lay the foundation of it, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

הָעִ֤יר (עִ֤יר) 'Ir “city”

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;

עִיר֖וֹ (עִיר֖) i.R “city”

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.

לָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready:

לָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”

and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Yahweh shall you do: behold, I have commanded you.

הָעִ֗יר (עִ֗יר) 'Ir “city”הָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”

All the people, [ergänzt: even] the [ergänzt: 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.

הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

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

לָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

So they set the people, even all the host who was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait who were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

לָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”לָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

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.

הָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

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.

הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

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.

הָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”

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.

הָעִֽיר׃ (עִֽיר) 'Ir “city”

The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.

הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”הָעִ֖יר (עִ֖יר) 'Ir “city”

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.

הָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”

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.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”הָעִ֑יר (עִ֑יר) 'Ir “city”

The others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

הָעִיר֙ (עִיר֙) 'Ir “city”

Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.

הָעִ֣יר (עִ֣יר) 'Ir “city”

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.

הָעִ֔יר (עִ֔יר) 'Ir “city”