Joshua 8:23-29

23Only the king of Ai was still alive. They caught him and they took him to Joshua.

24The Israelites killed all the men who had lived in Ai. They killed them when they chased them towards the desert. Then the Israelite soldiers went back to Ai and they killed everyone there.

25All the people of Ai died on that day. That was 12,000 men and women.

26Joshua continued to point his spear at Ai, until his army had killed every person who lived there.

27But the Israelites took the valuable things and the animals for themselves. That was what the Lord had told Joshua.

28Joshua burned the city and he broke down its walls. It is still like that today.

29He hanged the king of Ai on a tree. He left his body there until evening. At sunset, Joshua told his men to cut the body down. They threw it on the ground outside the city's gate. They covered it with a heap of stones. Those stones are still there today.