together, and encouraging one another, pursued
them. And when they were come from the city,

8:17. And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel, that did
not pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they had rushed out,

8:18. The Lord said to Josue: Lift up the shield that is in thy hand,
towards the city of Hai, for I will deliver it to thee.

8:19. And when he had lifted up his shield towards the city, the ambush,
that lay hid, rose up immediately: and going to the city, took it, and
set it on fire.

8:20. And the men of the city, that pursued after Josue, looking back,
and seeing the smoke of the city rise up to heaven, had no more power to
flee this way or that way: especially as they that had counterfeited
flight, and were going toward the wilderness, turned back most valiantly
against them that pursued.

8:21. So Josue, and all Israel, seeing that the city was taken, and that
the smoke of the city rose up, returned, and slew the men of Hai.

8:22. And they also that had taken and set the city on fire, issuing out
of the city to meet their own men, began to cut off the enemies who were
surrounded by them. So that the enemies being cut off on both sides, not
one of so great a multitude was saved.

8:23. And they took the king of the city of Hai alive and brought him to
Josue.

8:24. So all being slain that had pursued after Israel, in his flight to
the wilderness, and falling by the sword in the same place, the children
of Israel returned and laid waste the city.

8:25. And the number of them that fell that day, both of men and women,
was twelve thousand persons, all of the city of Hai.

8:26. But Josue drew not back his hand, which he had stretched out on
high, holding the shield, till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain.

8:27. And the children of Israel divided among them, the cattle and the
prey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Josue.

8:28. And he burnt the city, and made it a heap forever:

8:29. And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet, until the evening and
the going down of the sun. Then Josue commanded, and they took down his
carcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entrance of the city,
heaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this
present day.

8:30. Then Josue built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount
Hebal,

8:31. As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of
Israel, and it is written in the book of