§ 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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H5857 — עַי
ay · Ai · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 12:8 · וְהָעַ֣יFrom there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.Genesis 13:3 · הָעָֽי׃From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,Joshua 7:2 · הָעַ֞י · הָעָֽי׃Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.Joshua 7:3 · הָעָ֑יOn returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”Joshua 7:4 · הָעָֽי׃So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.Joshua 7:5 · הָעַ֗יAnd the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.Joshua 8:1 · הָעָ֑י · הָעַי֙Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.Joshua 8:2 · לָעַ֜יAnd you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”Joshua 8:3 · הָעָ֑יSo Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at nightJoshua 8:9 · הָעַ֖י · לָעָ֑יSo Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.Joshua 8:10 · הָעָֽי׃Joshua got up early the next morning and mobilized his men, and he and the elders of Israel marched before them up to Ai.Joshua 8:11 · לָעַ֔י · הָעָֽי׃Then all the troops who were with him marched up and approached the city. They arrived in front of Ai and camped to the north of it, with the valley between them and the city.Joshua 8:12 · הָעַ֖יNow Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.Joshua 8:14 · הָעַ֗יWhen the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.Joshua 8:16 · בָּעַ֔יThen all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city.Joshua 8:17 · בָּעַי֙Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.Joshua 8:18 · הָעַ֔יThen the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,Joshua 8:20 · הָעַ֨יWhen the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now turned against their pursuers.Joshua 8:21 · הָעָֽי׃When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.Joshua 8:23 · הָעַ֖יBut they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.Joshua 8:24 · הָעַ֜י · הָעַ֔יWhen Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.Joshua 8:25 · הָעָֽי׃A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.Joshua 8:26 · הָעָֽי׃Joshua did not draw back the hand that held his battle lance until he had devoted to destruction all who lived in Ai.Joshua 8:28 · הָעָ֑יSo Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.Joshua 8:29 · הָעַ֛יHe hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.Joshua 9:3 · וְלָעָֽי׃But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,Joshua 10:1 · הָעַי֮ · לָעַ֖יNow Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.Joshua 10:2 · הָעַ֔יSo Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.Joshua 12:9 · הָעַ֛יthe king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;Ezra 2:28 · וְהָעָ֔יthe men of Bethel and Ai, 223;Nehemiah 7:32 · וְהָעָ֔יthe men of Bethel and Ai, 123;Nehemiah 11:31 · וְעַיָּ֔הThe descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;Isaiah 10:28 · עַיַּ֖תAssyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.Jeremiah 49:3 · עַ֗יWail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.