Yahweh 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.
"So they let none of them remain or escape ..." The literal words here in the Hebrew are: "Until there remained to them neither remainder nor fugitive."[22]  The extent of the slaughter in the conquest of Canaan must have been one of the most terrible disasters of all history.  Israel systematically butchered entire populations of every city that they took.