^{27 Ref} Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.

^{28 Ref} So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

^{29 Ref} The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, to this day.