After three days the leaders went through the camp

They marched around the city one time on the second day, then returned to the camp. They did this six days in all.

That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.

They ate some of the produce of the land the day after the Passover, including unleavened bread and roasted grain.

Have all the warriors march around the city one time; do this for six days.

Twelve thousand men and women died that day, including all the men of Ai.

and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)

Then they erected over him a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day) and the Lord’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.

That day the Lord brought honor to Joshua before all Israel. They respected him all his life, just as they had respected Moses.

But the Israelites did not conquer the Geshurites and Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this very day.

On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn and marched around the city as before – only this time they marched around it seven times.

But you must be loyal to the Lord your God, as you have been to this very day.

So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities – Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time, right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God.

The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away the disgrace of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal even to this day.

There has not been a day like it before or since. The Lord obeyed a man, for the Lord fought for Israel!

So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the plains of Jericho.

Three days after they made the treaty with them, the Israelites found out they were from the local area and lived nearby.