The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Joshua 8:10 (NASB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] Now Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people to Ai.
 
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Joshua 8:11
King James Version(KJV)

11.)And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.
 
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Joshua 8:13 (NASB)
[SUP]13 [/SUP] So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north side of the city, and its rear guard on the west side of the city, and Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley.
 
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Jos 8:14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he knew not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
 
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Joshua 8:15 (New King James Version)
"And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness."
 
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Joshua 8:17 (NASB)
[SUP]17 [/SUP] So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they left the city unguarded and pursued Israel.
 
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Joshua 8:18 (KJV)
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.
 
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Joshua 8:19 (NASB)
[SUP]19 [/SUP] The men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it, and they quickly set the city on fire.
 
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Joshua 8:20
King James Version(KJV)

20.)And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
 
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Joshua 8:21 (NASB)
[SUP]21 [/SUP] When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and slew the men of Ai.
 
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Joshua 8:22 (KJV)
And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
 
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Joshua 8:24 (KJV) And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
 
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Joshua 8:29 New Century Version (NCV)

Joshua hanged the king of Ai on a tree and left him there until evening. At sunset Joshua told his men to take the king’s body down from the tree and to throw it down at the city gate. Then they covered it with a pile of rocks, which is still there today.
 
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