§ Ai or Aija or Aiath or Hai = "heap of ruins" a city lying east of Bethel and beside Bethaven near Jericho and the second city taken on the invasion of Canaan
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ay · Ai · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 12:8 · וְהָעַ֣יAnd he removed from thence unto the mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Ai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto Jehovah, and called upon the name of Jehovah.Genesis 13:3 · הָעָֽי׃And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Ai,Joshua 7:2 · הָעַ֞י · הָעָֽי׃And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai.Joshua 7:3 · הָעָ֑יAnd they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; make not all the people to toil thither; for they are but few.Joshua 7:4 · הָעָֽי׃So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.Joshua 7:5 · הָעַ֗יAnd the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men; and they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.Joshua 8:1 · הָעָ֑י · הָעַי֙And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land;Joshua 8:2 · לָעַ֜יand thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: set thee an ambush for the city behind it.Joshua 8:3 · הָעָ֑יSo Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.Joshua 8:9 · הָעַ֖י · לָעָ֑יAnd Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the ambushment, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.Joshua 8:10 · הָעָֽי׃And Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.Joshua 8:11 · לָעַ֔י · הָעָֽי׃And all the people, even the men of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between him and Ai.Joshua 8:12 · הָעַ֖יAnd he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.Joshua 8:14 · הָעַ֗יAnd it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he knew not that there was an ambush against him behind the city.Joshua 8:16 · בָּעַ֔יAnd all the people that were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.Joshua 8:17 · בָּעַי֙And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.Joshua 8:18 · הָעַ֔יAnd Jehovah said unto Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.Joshua 8:20 · הָעַ֨יAnd when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.Joshua 8:21 · הָעָֽי׃And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.Joshua 8:23 · הָעַ֖יAnd the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.Joshua 8:24 · הָעַ֜י · הָעַ֔יAnd 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 pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.Joshua 8:25 · הָעָֽי׃And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.Joshua 8:26 · הָעָֽי׃For Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.Joshua 8:28 · הָעָ֑יSo Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.Joshua 8:29 · הָעַ֛יAnd the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.Joshua 9:3 · וְלָעָֽי׃But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,Joshua 10:1 · הָעַי֮ · לָעַ֖יNow it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it (as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king), and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;Joshua 10:2 · הָעַ֔יthat they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.Joshua 12:9 · הָעַ֛יthe king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;Ezra 2:28 · וְהָעָ֔יThe men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.Nehemiah 7:32 · וְהָעָ֔יThe men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred twenty and three.Nehemiah 11:31 · וְעַיָּ֔הThe children of Benjamin also dwelt from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof,Isaiah 10:28 · עַיַּ֖תHe is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage;Jeremiah 49:3 · עַ֗יWail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run to and fro among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.