After Achan had been burned, the Israelites captured Ai and hanged its
king on a tree. Then Joshua built an altar to God on Mount Ebal of whole
stones that had never been cut. On the altar he put burnt offerings. On
the stones of the altar he wrote the laws that Moses had given to the
people when he was alive. Then he got all the people together, men, women
and little ones, and read to them God’s promises of the good things that
would happen to them if they did right, and the bad things that would
happen if they did wrong. The people listened carefully to the reading.
Joshua did this because he had promised Moses that he would just before
he died.
[Illustration: THE ALTAR ON MOUNT EBAL.]