עַי עַיָא עַיָת

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had 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;

That 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.

The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.

The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.

The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,

He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.