<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will turn Samaria<n id="1" /> into a heap of ruins in an open field &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">vineyards will be planted there!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I will tumble<n id="3" /> the rubble of her stone walls<n id="4" /> down into the valley,p> <p class="poetry">and tear down her fortifications to their foundations.<n id="5" />p>

Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho<n id="1" /> and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!&#8221;p>

All the troops that were with him marched up and drew near the city.<n id="1" /> They camped north of Ai on the other side of the valley.<n id="2" />

Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place<n id="1" /> west of Ai, between Bethel<n id="2" /> and Ai.<n id="3" /> Joshua spent that night with the army.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Adoni-Zedek, king of Jerusalem,<n id="1" /> heard how Joshua captured Ai and annihilated it and its king as he did Jericho<n id="2" /> and its king.<n id="3" /> He also heard how<n id="4" /> the people of Gibeon made peace with Israel and lived among them.