And they took Makkedah on that day, and killed the inhabitants with the edge of the sword, and they utterly destroyed every living thing that was in it. And there was none left in it that was preserved and had escaped; and they did to the king of Makkedah, as they did to the king of Jericho.

There was no one left in Ai who did not pursue after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

And he departed from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and there he pitched his tent in Bethel near the sea, and Ai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.

And he called the name of that place, the House of God; and the name of the city before was Luz.

And the sons of Joseph, they also went up to Bethel; and the Lord was with them.