Joshua 8:1
The Fall of Ai
1And the Lord said to Joshua, a“Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, bI have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land.Joshua 8:17
17Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.Joshua 8:29-35
29 cAnd he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. dAnd at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and eraised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.Joshua Renews the Covenant
30At that time Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, fon Mount Ebal, 31just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, “an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings. 32And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on gthe stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. 33And all Israel, hsojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests iwho carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, jjust as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel. 34And afterward khe read all the words of the law, lthe blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. 35There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, mand the women, and the little ones, and nthe sojourners who lived ▼▼Or traveled
among them.
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