⁸ And it will be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire. According to the commandment of the Lord you shall do. ^(A)See, I have commanded you.”

²⁸ Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, “Watch now, when Amnon’s ^(A)heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and ^[a]valiant.”

¹⁶ So they answered Joshua, saying, “All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

^9 (A)Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; ^(B)do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

⁶ Then she sent and called for ^(A)Barak the son of Abinoam from ^(B)Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “Has not the Lord God of Israel commanded, ‘Go and ^[a]deploy troops at Mount ^(C)Tabor; take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun;

²⁸ So Joshua burned Ai and made it ^(A)a heap forever, a desolation to this day.

²⁴ But they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.