Drunk With Blood by Steve Wells Page A

her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves. Joshua 8.2
    So that’s what they did.
    They killed the soldiers,
    Joshua and all Israel … slew the men of Ai ... so that they let none of them remain or escape. 8.21-22
    murdered all the women and children,
    Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 8.26
    burned the city,
    Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever. 8.28
    killed the King of Ai, and hung his dead body on a tree.
    The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide. 8.29
    Just like God told them to do.
    And, finally, after they were done killing all the people, Joshua killed some animals as a “peace offering” to his bloody god of war.
    Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD ... and ... offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings. 8:30-31
    One thing I really like about this story (What’s not to like?) is that this time I don’t have to guess the number of victims. The Bible tells us how many were killed: 12,000.
    And … all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand. 8.25

34. God stops the sun so that Joshua can get his killing done in the daylight
    Joshua 10.10-12
    Estimated Number Killed: 5,000
    Amorites
    Joshua and the Israelites slaughtered or enslaved the people from every city that they came across. They killed everyone in Jericho ( 31 ) and Ai ( 33 ) and enslaved the people of Gibeon (Joshua 9.21-27). So the neighboring cities were getting kind of nervous.
    Five kings from these cities (the Amorite coalition) decided to attack the Israelites. Then God gets involved.
    God tells Joshua not to worry; he has given the Amorites into Joshua’s hand, and the Amorites would just run away when they were attacked.
    The LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. Joshua 10.8
    So Joshua attacked, but it was God who did most of the dirty work. He “discomfited them” and even “chased them along the way.”
    The LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way. 10.10
    But God was just getting started. He threw down from heaven giant hailstones and killed even more Amorite soldiers than the Israelite army.
    The LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. 10.11
    Then God made the sun and moon stop moving for 24 hours so that Joshua would have plenty of daylight to finish killing off the Amorites. (It was this verse, among others, that got Galileo in so much trouble. If God stopped the sun from moving, then the sun moves around the earth.)
    Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites ... Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. ... So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 10.12-13
    So in this killing, God got directly involved. He slaughtered people, “chased them along the way,” cast down huge hailstones from heaven, and, at Joshua’s request, he stopped the sun from moving for 24 hours. You just can’t ask much more from a God than that.
    Here’s how the Bible puts it.
    There was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel. 10.14
    (Since the Amorite coalition consisted of 5 cities, I put the number killed at 5000. 1000 for each city.)

35. Five kings killed and hung on trees
    Joshua 10.20-26
    Estimated Number Killed: 10,000
    Five Amorite Kings and their soldiers
    In his last killing ( 34 ), God got right in there and “fought