Question XII. Where, and how, was the King of Ai buried?

I. At the entrance of the city, and — as the Hebrew says — “at the gate of the city,” or “where the gate is opened,” the corpse was cast. The 70: ἔῤῥιψαν αὐτὸ (namely σῶμα [the body]) εἰς τὸν βόθρον [errhipsan auto … eis ton bothron], that is, “they cast the corpse itself into a pit.” Nor indeed did they read “Pechath” for “pethach” with the letters transposed, as Masius thinks; but they omitted this whole [phrase] about the “gate” — which, as often elsewhere, is expressed here not by the one [word] “petach” alone, but by another name too, “schaar” — and indicated [that] he himself was buried, and covered by the ditch. II. But over him let a monument be raised of cast and heaped stones, for his perpetual infamy — as [was] said above (ch. 7) concerning Achan.