Then I and All the People Who Are With Me Will Approach the City

Five thousand men were set in ambush between bethel and ai, to the west of the city. When joshua saw that the ambush had taken the city then they turned back and struck the men of ai against them. And israel struck them until there was left none that survived or escaped. All who fell that day, both men and women, were 12000, all the people of ai. There was not a man left in ai or bethel who did not go out after israel. They left the city open and pursued their pursuers. Joshua burned a heap of ruins which he hanged on a tree until evening. He took his body down from the tree