But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster on it.

All those who were with him went up and approached the city, arriving opposite Ai, and camped to the north of it, with a valley between them and the city.

The total of those who fell that day, both men and women, was 12,000—all the people of Ai.

When all the kings heard about Jericho and Ai, those who were west of the Jordan in the hill country, in the Judean foothills, and all along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea toward Lebanon—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—

Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings to me out of there.”

Along with those the Israelites put to death, they also killed the diviner, Balaam son of Beor, with the sword.