When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming on the Atharim road, he fought against Israel and captured some prisoners.
The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’s father-in-law, had gone up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms , to the Wilderness of Judah, which was in the Negev of Arad. They went to live among the people.
The men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them and chased them from outside the city gate to the quarries, striking them down on the descent. As a result, the people lost heart. ,