²¹ They devoted^(A) the city to the Lord and destroyed^(B) with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

²⁴ Then they burned the whole city^(A) and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron^(B) into the treasury of the Lord’s house.^(C)

²⁶ For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin^(A) until he had destroyed^[a](B) all who lived in Ai.^{(C) 27} But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the Lord had instructed Joshua.^(D)

²⁸ So Joshua burned^(E) Ai^[b](F) and made it a permanent heap of ruins,^(G) a desolate place to this day.^{(H) 29} He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset,^(I) Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks^(J) over it, which remains to this day.