23. They took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
24. When Israel completed killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they had pursued them, and when all of them had finally fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
25. All who had fallen that day, men and women, numbered twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.
26. Joshua did not draw back his hand with the stretched-out sword until he destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27. Israel plundered only the livestock and the spoil of that city for themselves, according to the word of the Lord that He had commanded Joshua.