Not a hand shall touch him, but stoning he shall be stoned, or piercing he shall be pierced. He shall not live, whether animal or man. At the sounding of the rams’ horn, they shall go up into the mountain.
And it shall be, when they blow long with the rams’ horn, and when you hear the sound of the rams’ horn, all the people shall shout with a great shout. And the wall of the city shall fall underneath; and the people shall go up, each man in front of him.
And they set the people, all the camp on the north of the city; and its rear on the west of the city. And Joshua went into the middle of the valley on that night.
And it happened, when the king of Ai saw, the men of the city rose early and hurried to go out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people at the appointed time before the plain. He did not know that an ambush was against him behind the city.
And the ambush rose up quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered the city, and took it. And they hurried and burned the city with fire.