²⁸ Joshua took Makkedah on that day and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly destroyed every person in it; he left no one remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.^(A)

²² The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.

¹⁷ There was not a man left in Ai^[a] who did not go out after Israel; they left the city open and pursued Israel.

¹⁹ He called that place Bethel,^[a] but the name of the city was Luz at the first.^(A)

⁸ From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord.^(A)