Genesis 12:8 mention
He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
Preview context Genesis 13:3 mention
He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Preview context Joshua 7:2 event
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.
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They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”
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So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.
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The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
Preview context Joshua 8:1 event
Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
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You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
Preview context Joshua 8:3 event
So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
Preview context Joshua 8:9 mention
Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
Preview context Joshua 8:10 event
Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
Preview context Joshua 8:11 mention
All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and came near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
Preview context Joshua 8:12 mention
He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Preview context Joshua 8:14 event
When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Preview context Joshua 8:16 event
All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
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There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
Preview context Joshua 8:18 event
Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
Preview context Joshua 8:20 event
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. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
Preview context Joshua 8:21 event
When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.
Preview context Joshua 8:23 mention
They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
Preview context Joshua 8:24 event
When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.
Preview context Joshua 8:25 mention
All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
Preview context Joshua 8:26 mention
For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Preview context Joshua 8:28 event
So Joshua burned Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
Preview context Joshua 8:29 event
He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
Preview context Joshua 9:3 event
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
Preview context Joshua 10:1 event
Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,
Preview context Joshua 10:2 mention
they were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.
Preview context Joshua 12:9 mention
the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
Preview context Ezra 2:28 mention
The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.
Preview context Nehemiah 7:32 mention
The men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred twenty-three.
Preview context Jeremiah 49:3 mention
“Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, you daughters of Rabbah! Clothe yourself in sackcloth. Lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam will go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
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