Joshua 8:25

And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

Cross-references

In Joshua 8:1, God promises victory over Ai; here the total destruction fulfills that promise.

Joshua 8:17 sets up the ambush that results in no survivors; verse 25 reports the death toll from that ambush.

Deuteronomy 2:34 records the same total destruction of Heshbon, establishing the practice of herem that Ai follows.