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So about three thousand men went up there from the people, but they fled before the men of Ai.
But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand - all the people of Ai.
And all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near; and they came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now a valley lay between them and Ai.
There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel.
So all the people who were in Ai were called together to pursue them. And they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
And they returned to Joshua and said to him, "Do not let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not weary all the people there, for the people of Ai are few."
Now the LORD said to Joshua: "Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
Now 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 country." So the men went up and spied out Ai.
Joshua therefore sent them out; and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night.
So he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
the men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three;
the men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three;
And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
Now it happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;