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Joshua 8:24, 28, 29

Joshua 8:24 NIV

When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it.

Joshua 8:28 NIV

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day.

Joshua 8:29 NIV

He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.

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