[24] And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. [25] And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, of Ai. [26] For Joshua not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.