~ Ai Falls ~

Then the Lord said to Joshua,
"Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand,
for into your hand I will deliver the city."
So Joshua held out his javelin toward Ai.
As soon as he did this,
the men in the ambush
rose quickly from their position
and rushed forward.
they entered the city and captured it
and quickly set it on fire.

. . . So Joshua burned Ai
and made it a permanent heap of ruins,
a desolate place to this day.
He hung the king of Ai on a tree
and left him there until evening.
At sunset,
Joshua ordered them to take his body from the tree
and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate.
And they raised a large pile of rocks over it,
which remains to this day.

(Joshua 8:18-19, 28-29)