Joshua 8:21-29

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

²⁸ And he burned the city, and made it a heap for ever:

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.