21. 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.
22. The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23. They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24. When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.
25. All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
26. 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.
27. Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the Lord’s word which he commanded Joshua.
28. So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
29. He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
30. Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
31. as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the scroll of the Torah of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings.
32. He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.