Jos 8:26-29 | ESV | STEP | But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction .

‏ Joshua 8:26-29

26 But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he ^astretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction. ^{▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)} 27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the Lord that he ^ccommanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a ^dheap of ruins, as it is to this day. 29 ^eAnd he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. ^fAnd at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and ^graised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.