¶ Then Joshua arose, and all the men of war to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand strong men, and valiant, and sent them away by night.

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28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap [a]forever, and a wilderness unto this day.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:28 That it could never be built again.

29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree, unto the evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded [a]that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and (A)lay thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:29 According as it was commanded, Deut. 21:23.

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