Joshua 8:15-22

15Then Joshua and all Israel 1pretended to be defeated before them, and fled 2by the way of the wilderness. 16And all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and 3were lured away from the city. 17So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel, 4but they had all gone out after Israel, and they left the city 5unguarded and pursued Israel.

18Then the Lord said to Joshua, “6Reach out with the sword that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will hand it over to you.” So Joshua reached out with the sword that was in his hand toward the city. 19Then the men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had reached out with his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it, and they quickly set the city on fire. 20When the men of Ai turned 7back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers. 21When 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 8killed the men of Ai. 229The others came out from the city to confront them, so that they were trapped in the midst of Israel, 10some on this side and some on that side; and they 11killed them until there was not 12one 13left who escaped or survived.