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A'i. (heap of ruins).

1. A city lying east of Bethel and "beside Bethaven." Joshua 7:2; Joshua 8:9. It was the second city taken by Israel after the passage of the Jordan, and was "utterly destroyed." Joshua 7:3-5; Joshua 8:1; Joshua 9:3; Joshua 10:1-2; Joshua 12:9.

2. A city of the Ammonites, apparently attached to Heshbon. Jeremiah 49:3.