battle of ai lia kisner

Lets go to Ai

Lets go to Ai

Yehoshua sent meraglim to Ai to see how it was there, but there were not a lot of people there. The spies came back and said there weren’t many people there so they didn’t have to send a lot of soldiers.

By Lia Kisner – Year 4 – Moriah JDS

We did itWe did itfinallyfinally

Yehoshua thought that the battle would be easy, so he sent 3000 soldiers to fight, but the people of Ai attacked them and they lost 36 soldiers.

I didn’t steal the money

I didn’t steal the money

Yes you didYes you did

B’nei Yisrael wondered why they had lost the battle. Hashem told Yehoshua that some items had been taken from Yericho, when they were told not to.

GOLD &

SILVER

GOLD &

SILVER

Achan stole lots of valuable things from Yericho and hid them under his tent.

VALUABLES

VALUABLES

Achan Achan died died

here. here.

Achan Achan died died

here. here.

Achan was killed because he was naughty!!

Lets fight AiYEAH!

!!

YEAH!!!!!

YEAH!!!

Yehoshua had a brilliant plan. He sent 30,000 soldiers to wait in Ai. While they were waiting he brought a small army started attacking.

OH NO!!!!!OH NO!!!!!

The King of Ai’s soldiers attacked Yehoshua’s small army.

I’m running away, away

from you

I’m running away, away

from you

Yehoshua’s army pretended to run away so the King of Ai chased them. No one was looking after the city.

I will raise my javelin now to all

you soldiers that are

waiting to enter Ai

I will raise my javelin now to all

you soldiers that are

waiting to enter Ai

Yehoshua raised his javelin as a sign to the soldiers who were waiting to enter Ai and set it on fire.

YAYYAY YAY YAY

YAY

YAY YAY

B’NEI YISRAEL WON THE BATTLE AND TOOK OVER AI