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3 The siege. 19 And winning of Ai. 19 The King thereof is hanged. 30 Ioshúa setteth vp an altar. 32 He writeth the Lawe vpon stones. 35 And readeth it to all the people.
1 AFter, the Lord said vnto Ioshūa, *Feare* 1.1 not, nether be thou faint hearted: take all the men of warre with thee and a rise, go
vp to Ai: beholde, I haue giuen into thine hand the King of Ai, and his people, & his citie, and his land.
2 And thou shalt do to Ai, and to the Kyng thereof, as thou didest vnto* Ierichô and* 1.2 to the king therof: neuertheles the spoyle thereof and *the cattell thereof shall ye* 1.3 take vnto you for a pray: thou shalt lye in waite against the Citie on thea 1.4 backside thereof.
3 ¶Then Ioshūa arose, and all the men of warre to go vp agaynste Ai: and Ioshúa chose out thirtye thousande strong men, (and) valiant, and sent them awaye by night.
4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, yeb 1.5 shal lye in wait against the citie on the backside of the citie go not very far from the citie, but be ye all in a readines.
5 And I and all the people that are with me, wil approche vnto the citie: and whē they shal come out against vs, as they did at the first time, then wil we flee before them.
6 For thei wil come out after vs, til we haue broght them out of the citie for they will say, They flee before vs as at the first tyme: so we wil flee before them.
7 Then you shal rise vp from lying in waite and“ 1.6 destroye the citie, for the Lord your God wil deliuer it into your hand.
8 And when ye haue taken the citie, ye shal set it on fire: according to the commāde∣ment of the Lord shal ye do: behold, I haue charged you.
9 ¶Ioshúa then sent them forthe, and they went to lie in waite, and abode betwene Beth-él and Ai, on the Westside of Ai: but Ioshúa lodged that nyghtec 1.7 amonge the people.
10 And Ioshúa rose vp early in the morning, andd 1.8 nombred the people and he and the Elders of Israél went vp before the peo∣ple (against) Ai.
11 Also all the men of warre that were with him went vp and drue nere, and came a∣gainst the citie, & pitched on the North∣side of Ai: and there was a valley betwene them and Ai.
12 And he toke aboute fiue thousande men,e 1.9 and set them to lie in wait betwene Beth∣él and Ai, on the Westside of the citie.
13 And the people set all the hoste that was on the Northside against the Citie, & the liers in wayte on the West, against the Ci∣tie: (and) Ioshúa went the same night into thef 1.10 middes of the valley.
14 ¶And when the King of Ai sawe it, then the men of the citie hasted & rose vp ear∣ly, and went out against Israél to battell, he & all his people at the time appointed, before the plaine: for he knewe not that (anie) lay in wait against him on the back∣side of the citie.
15 Then Ioshúa and all Israélg 1.11 (as) beatē be∣fore thē, fled by the way of the wildernes.
16 And all the people of the citie were cal∣led together, to pursue after them: & thei pursued after Ioshúa, and were drawen away out of the citie,
17 So that there was not a man left in Ai, nor in Beth-él, that went not out after Israéll: and they left the Citie open, and pursued after Israél.
18 Thē the Lord said vnto Ioshūa,h 1.12 Stretche out the speare that is in thine hād toward Ai: for I will giue it into thine hande: and Ioshúa stretched out the speare that he had in his hand, towarde the citie.
19 And thei that lay in waite, arose quickely out of their place, and ran assone as he had stretched out his hande, and they entred into the citie, and toke it, and hasted, and set the citie on fire.
20 And the men of Ai loked behinde them, and saweit: for lo, the smoke of the Citie ascended vp“ 1.13 to heauen, and they had no“ 1.14 power to flee this way or that way: for the people that fled to the wildernes, turned backe vpon the pursuers.
21 When Ioshúa and all Israél sawe that they that lay in wayte, had taken the citie, and that the smoke of the Citie mounted vp, then they turned againe and slewe the mē of Ai.
22 Also thei 1.15 other issued out of the Citie a∣gainst them: so were they in the middes of Israél, these (being) on the one side, & the rest on the other side: & they slewe them,* 1.16 so that they let none of them * remayne nor escape.
23 And the Kynge of Ai they toke aliue, and broght him to Ioshúa.
24 And when Israél had made an end of slay∣ing all the inhabitāts of Ai in the field, (that is,) in the wildernes, where they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, vntil they were consu∣med, all the Israelites returned vnto Ai, &k 1.17 smote it with the edge of the sworde.
25 And all that fell that day, bothe of men & women, were twelue thousande, euen all the men of Ai.
26 For Ioshúa drewe not his hand backe a∣gaine which he had stretched out with the speare, vntil he had vtterlye destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 *Onely the cattell and the spoyle of this* 1.18 citie, Israél toke for a pray vnto them sel∣ues, according vnto the word of the Lord, which he commanded Ioshûa.
28 And Ioshúa burnt Ai, & made it an heape forl 1.19 euer, (and) a wildernes vnto this day.
29 And the Kynge of Ai he hanged on a tre, vnto the euening. And assone as the sunne was downe, Ioshúa commandedm 1.20 that thei shuld take his carkeis downe from the tre, and cast it at the entring of the gate of the citie, and * lay thereon a greate heape of* 1.21 stones, (that remaineth) vnto this day.
30 ¶Then Ioshúa buylt an altar vnto the
Lord God of Israél, in mount Ebál,
31 As Mosés the seruant of the Lorde had commanded the children of Israél, as it is written in the *boke of the Law of Mosés,* 1.22* 1.23 an altar of whole stone, ouer which no mā had lift an yron: and they offred thereon burnt 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vnto the Lord, & sacrificed peace offrings.
32 Also he wrote there vpon the stones, an 1.24 rehearsall of the Lawe of Mosés, which he wrote in the presence of the chyldren of Israél.
33 And all Israél [and their Elders, and offi∣cers and their iudges stode on this side of the Arke, & on that side, before the Priests of the Leuites, which bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lord] aswel the stranger, as he that is borne in the countrey: halfe of thē (were) ouer against mount Gerizim, and halfe of thē ouer against mount Ebál, *as Mosés the seruant of the Lorde had* 1.25 commanded before, that they shuld blesse the people of Israél.
34 Then afterwarde he red all the wordes of the Lawe, the blessings and cursings, ac∣cording to all that is written in the boke of the Lawe.
35 There was not a worde of all that Mosés had commanded, whiche Ioshúa red not before all the Congregacion of Israél,* 1.26 *aswell (before) the women and the chyl∣dren, aso 1.27 the stranger that was cōuersant among them.
Deut. 7. 18. and 21. 23.
Chap. 6. 21.
Deute. 20. 14.
Meaning on the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, as vers. 9.
God woldenot destroye Ai by miracle, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉, to the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that other natiōs mighte 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the power and poli∣cie of his people.
Or; driue out (the inhabitants) of the citie.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 the rest of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
That is, vewed them and set thē in a ray.
He sent 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that the other whiche lay in ambush, might not be discouered
To the intent that they in the citie mighte the better discouer his armie.
As they which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to flee for 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vp the baner, to signifie when they shall inuade the citie.
Or, toward the heauen.
Or, place.
VVhiche came out of the ābushe.
Deute. 7. 2.
For the fire, whiche they had before set in the citie, was not to consume it, but to signifie vnto Ioshua that they were entred.
Nomb. 30. 22.
That it coldene uer be 〈◊〉〈◊〉 againe.
According as it was comman∣ded. Deut. 21. 23.
Chap. 7. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Exod. 20. 25.
Deute. 27. 5.
Meaning the ten commande∣ments, which are the summe of the whole Law.
Deut. 11. 29. & 27. 12.
Deut. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 12.
So 〈◊〉〈◊〉 yong nor olde, man nor woman were exempted frome hearing the word of the Lord.