battle of ai by jonathan levene

Yehoshua sends Meraglim to Ai

Meraglim, go to Ai to check how we need

to conquer it!

Ooh, I must Ooh, I must tell Yehoshua tell Yehoshua

that there that there aren’t many aren’t many people in Ai people in Ai and it will be and it will be

easy to easy to conquer it!conquer it!

We have lost 36 men! Why would Hashem do

this? We beat the people in Yericho! Have we done

anything wrong?

When Bnei Yisrael conquered Yericho, they were told not to take anything from Yericho…

1. Hashem, why were

we defeated?

2. Yehoshua, things have been stolen

from Yericho!

3. Hashem, I just – I just

don’t understand! Who would do such a

thing?

4. Yehoshua, you know

that I don’t lie. There is one person who did it…

Ha ha ha! I have stolen all of these

lovely valuable things! Ooh, this silver looks nice, and so does this gold! No one will

EVER notice! Achan NEVER fails!

At least that’s what Achan thinks!

Why did I do

this?

Achan is killed!! Hooray!

Yehoshua sends 30,000 men to wait behind Ai. He also sends a small army with him to chase everyone out of Ai so that there is no defence and someone could easily …

I wonder when it will be time!

Time to do what…?

Soldiers Soldiers of Ai, as of Ai, as

your your king, I king, I

commancommand you to d you to ATTACK ATTACK

BNEI BNEI YISRAEL!YISRAEL!

!!!!!!!!

Now, lets Now, lets run away! run away! Ooh, my Ooh, my plan is plan is nearly nearly

finished! I finished! I hope it hope it works!works!

Come on

soldiers! You can do this!

Fire

They will do it all right!If you were wondering what “m mm m m” meant it means set fire to it.

Yes!!! We have won!! Thank you

Hashem!

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