that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

So then Joshua burned Ai, - and made of it an age-abiding heap - a desolation, as it remaineth until this day.