Dict: easton - Ai

easton:

Ai @ ruins.

(1.) One of the royal cities of the Canaanites kjv@Joshua:10:1; kjv@Genesis:12:8 kjv@Genesis:13:3). It was the scene of Joshua's defeat, and afterwards of his victory. It was the second Canaanite city taken by Israel kjv@Joshua:7:2-5 kjv@Joshua:8:1-29). It lay rebuilt and inhibited by the Benjamites kjv@Ezra:2:28; kjv@Nehemiah:7:32 kjv@Nehemiah:11:31). It lay to the east of Bethel, "beside Beth-aven." The spot which is most probably the site of this ancient city is Haiyan, 2 miles east from Bethel. It lay up the Wady Suweinit, a steep, rugged valley, extending from the Jordan valley to Bethel.

(2.) A city in the Ammonite territory kjv@Jeremiah:49:3). Some have thought that the proper reading of the word is Ar kjv@Isaiah:15:1).