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Title: The art Bible, comprising the Old and new Testaments : with numerous illustrations
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Subjects: Bible
Publisher: London : G. Newnes
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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d they ran as soon as he hadstretched out his hand: and they entered intothe city, and took it, and hasted and set thecity on fire. 20 And when the men of Ai looked behindthem, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of thecity ascended up to heaven, and they had nopower to flee this way or that way: and thepeople that fled to the wilderness tui-ned backupon the pursuers. 27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that cityIsrael took for a prey unto themselves, accorcl-ing unto the word of the Lord which hecommanded Joshua. 28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it anheap for ever, even a desolation unto thisday. 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a treeuntil even-tide: and as soon as the sun wasdown, Joshua commanded that they shouldtake his carcase down from the tree, andcast it at the entering of the gate of the city,and raise thereon a great heap of stones, thatremaineth unto this day. 30 IT Then Joshua built an altar unto theLord God of Israel in mount Ebal, 31 As Moses the servant of the Lord com-
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21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw thatthe ambush had taken the city, and that thesmoke of the city ascended, then they turnedagain, and slew the men of Ai. 22 And the other issued out of the cityagainst them; so they were in the midst ofIsrael, some on this side, and some on thatside: and they smote them, so that they letnone of them remain or escape. 23 And the king of Ai they took alive, andbrought him to Joshua. 24 And it came to pass, when Israel hadmade an end of slaying all the inhabitants ofAi in the field, in the wilderness wherein theychased them, and when they were all fallenon the edge of the sword, until they wereconsumed, that all the Israelites returnedunto Ai, and smote it with the edge of thesword. 25 And so it was, that all that fell that day,both of men and women, ivere twelve thousand,even all the men of Ai. 26 For Joshua drew not his hand back,wherewith he stretched out the sjiear, untilhe had utterly destroyed all the inhabitantsof Ai. manded the children of I

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