They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword—every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.

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

But the descendants of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who inhabit the valley area have iron chariots, both at Beth-shean with its towns and in the Jezreel Valley.”