24. Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the fields and in the desert where they had been pursued. They put them all to death; not one person survived. Then the Israelites went back to Ai and killed everyone left there.
25. Twelve thousand men and women from Ai died that day.
26. Joshua did not lower his hand holding the spear until he had completely destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27. Israel took the loot and the livestock of that city for themselves, as the Lord had commanded Joshua.
28. So Joshua burned Ai and made it a deserted mound of ruins. It is still in ruins today.