§ 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 · וְהָעַ֣יHe left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.Genesis 13:3 · הָעָֽי׃He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,Joshua 7:2 · הָעַ֞י · הָעָֽי׃Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.Joshua 7:3 · הָעָ֑יThey returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”Joshua 7:4 · הָעָֽי׃So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.Joshua 7:5 · הָעַ֗יThe men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.Joshua 8:1 · הָעָ֑י · הָעַי֙Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.Joshua 8:2 · לָעַ֜יYou shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”Joshua 8:3 · הָעָ֑יSo Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.Joshua 8:9 · הָעַ֖י · לָעָ֑יJoshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.Joshua 8:10 · הָעָֽי׃Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.Joshua 8:11 · לָעַ֔י · הָעָֽי׃All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and drew near, 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 · הָעַ֖יHe took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.Joshua 8:14 · הָעַ֗יIt happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried 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 didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.Joshua 8:16 · בָּעַ֔יAll the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.Joshua 8:17 · בָּעַי֙There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.Joshua 8:18 · הָעַ֔יYahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.Joshua 8:20 · הָעַ֨יWhen 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. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.Joshua 8:21 · הָעָֽי׃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 killed the men of Ai.Joshua 8:23 · הָעַ֖יThey captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.Joshua 8:24 · הָעַ֜י · הָעַ֔יIt happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.Joshua 8:25 · הָעָֽי׃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 didn’t draw back his hand, with which 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 forever, even a desolation, to this day.Joshua 8:29 · הָעַ֛יHe hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.Joshua 9:3 · וְלָעָֽי׃But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,Joshua 10:1 · הָעַי֮ · לָעַ֖יNow it happened 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 were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men 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 Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.Nehemiah 7:32 · וְהָעָ֔יThe men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.Nehemiah 11:31 · וְעַיָּ֔הThe children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,Isaiah 10:28 · עַיַּ֖תHe has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.Jeremiah 49:3 · עַ֗יWail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.