25. Twelve thousand men and women fell that day – all the people of Ai.
26. For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had destroyed all who lived in Ai.
27. But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the Lord had instructed Joshua.
28. So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day.