Joshua 8:24-26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
24 When Israel finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open, who had pursued them into the wilderness, and all of them to the last man fell by the sword, then all Israel returned and put to the sword those inside the city. 25 There fell that day a total of twelve thousand men and women, the entire population of Ai. 26 (A)Joshua kept the javelin in his hand stretched out until he had carried out the ban on all the inhabitants of Ai.
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