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28 Then Joshua destroyed Ai by fire, reducing it to an everlasting mound of ruins, as it remains today.(A) 29 He had the king of Ai hanged on a tree until evening;(B) then at sunset Joshua ordered the body removed from the tree and cast at the entrance of the city gate, where a great heap of stones was piled up over it, which remains to the present day.

Altar on Mount Ebal. 30 [a](C)Later, on Mount Ebal, Joshua built to the Lord, the God of Israel, an altar

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Footnotes

  1. 8:30–35 These ceremonies were prescribed in Dt 11:29 and 27:2–26.