Your fathers cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.

(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)

Joshua said, “Roll large stones over the mouth of the cave and post guards in front of it.

Joshua said, “Open the cave’s mouth and bring the five kings out of the cave to me.”

These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots.

He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening. At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day).

At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.)