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  AI - Holman Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
Ai means “ruin” (or possibly “heap”) in the Hebrew language.
Jeremiah used the ruin of Ai as a warning to the Ammonites, who had occupied Israel's territory (Jeremiah 49:3).
Ai's meaning goes far beyond its mysterious location.
www.studylight.org /dic/hbd/view.cgi?number=T210   (521 words)

  
  Ai (Bible) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ai mentioned by the Book of Joshua is also mentioned by the Book of Genesis as having been a religious sanctuary, which it claims was founded by Abraham (though most biblical scholars now think this is an aetiological myth); Abraham's tent, i.e.
Edward Robinson suggested in 1838 that et-Tell could be the location of the Biblical city of Ai, as did Charles Wilson in 1866, on the evidence of Biblical references and nearby topography.
In addition Ai, meaning Ruin is a particularly strange name for a city to have, while it is a quite ordinary name for a pile of rubble to have; Ai would only really be expected to become Ai after it had been destroyed not before.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ai_(Bible)   (579 words)

  
 Ai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Ai of Jin, a Jin Dynasty (265-420) emperor
Merneferre Ai, an Ancient Egyptian ruler of the thirteenth dynasty of Egypt.
Ai Toyon, the Yakut god of light, usually depicted as an eagle perched atop the "world tree".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ai   (520 words)

  
 Ai - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The ai is a three-toed sloth of the genus Bradypus.
Ai, a chimpanzee who has participated in experiments in animal cognition at Kyoto University
Ai, a place mentioned in the Bible, which is probably identical to the archaeological site of Et-Tell.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/AI   (280 words)

  
 bible.org: Victory at Ai (Joshua 8:1-35)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Though the primary cause of the defeat at Ai was Achan’s sin, a secondary cause was underestimating the enemy, overestimating themselves, and presuming on the Lord (cf.
Their mission was to rush into Ai and burn it after its defenders had deserted it to pursue Joshua and his army as they had previously done.
Ai’s king, who had been previously spared, was hanged on a tree until evening and then buried beneath a pile of stones (cf.
bible.org /page.asp?page_id=300   (4617 words)

  
 March Bible Quotes
When the king of Ai saw the Israelites across the valley, he and all his army hurriedly went out early the next morning and attacked the Israelites at a place overlooking the Jordan Valley.
When the men of Ai looked behind them, smoke from the city was filling the sky, and they had nowhere to go.
So the men of Ai were caught in a trap, and all of them died.
www.evilbible.com /March.htm   (2792 words)

  
 Ai - Et-Tell (BiblePlaces.com)
Was Ai a ruin at the time of the Conquest (Stichting Bijbel, Geschiedenis en Archeologie) A lengthy summary of the Livingston/Rainey dialogue, focusing largely on the location of Bethel, which in turn affects the location of Ai.
Ai (et-Tell) and Problems of Biblical Interpretation (Western Evangelical Seminary) A lengthy article explaining some of the problems with et-Tell as the biblical Ai from a more conservative perspective.
The Archaeology of Ai (Mysteries of the Bible) Describes the archaeological dilemmas simplistically, although from a conservative perspective.
www.bibleplaces.com /ettell.htm   (388 words)

  
 ELCA Daily Bible Reading
You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king; only its spoil and its livestock you may take as booty for yourselves.
When the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the inhabitants of the city, hurried out early in the morning to the meeting place facing the Arabah to meet Israel in battle; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
All text is from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyrighted, 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches USA, and is used by permission.
www.elca.org /scriptLib/CO/bible/tbrBibleView.asp   (719 words)

  
 Artificial Intelligence From the Bible!
The notion that the secret of AI was written down in a book nearly two thousand years ago is bound to ruffle many a scientific feather.
Riegler's stance is in sharp contrast to that of the AI community.
Contrary to what many AI researchers have preached (and continue to preach as I write) over the last fifty years or so, intelligence and reasoning are not the result of symbol processing.
www.rebelscience.org /Seven/bible.html   (3940 words)

  
 BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 50 versions and 35 languages.
Bible book list for your default version (New International Version).
Listen to this chapter Audio is taken from the Listener's Bible narrated by Max McLean.
Bible Gateway stories: using the BG to enhance ministry
www.biblegateway.com   (365 words)

  
 Controversy over the East Bank   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
You will find their analysis to be nondogmatic, understanding the fulfilling events of Bible prophecy are often looked at through a glass darkly, yet with cogent, timely insights on potentially prophetic world events.
Bible commentators of the past had noticed it as well, and incorrectly assumed that there must have been another "Ai" on the east side as well as the city that figured prominently in the annals of Joshua.
The mention of Ai in this verse, after the period when that city had any kind of relevance to the situation, is an encoded, symbolic reference to the modern city of Ramallah.
www.worthyinsights.com /features/east-bank.html   (1247 words)

  
 Blue Letter Bible
And when the king of Ai saw this he and all his people, the men of the city, made haste and went out early to the descent toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven; and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
www.blueletterbible.org /rsv/Jos/Jos008.html   (1007 words)

  
 Ai 1998
Thus, the Bible indicates that the gate of Ai was on the north side.
We did not find the bones of the king of Ai, but we did find a large number of stones in the west chamber of the gate, many more than were found in the areas outside the gate.
Because of this, it is quite possible that the ruined site of Ai became known as "the place of sacrificial smoke," a name that has survived to modern times, but the meaning of which has been forgotten.
www.bibleplaces.com /bolen/ai.html   (2406 words)

  
 Is there evidence of the Conquest at Ai?
Et-Tell, the Remains of Ai Ai was the second city Joshua's army attacked during the Conquest.
The Bible records in Joshua chapter 8 that the Israelites defeated Ai, killed its 120,000 inhabitants, and burned the city.
And he hanged the King of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave command and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to this day.
www.biblicalchronologist.org /answers/conquest_ai.php   (850 words)

  
 Joshua, Chapter 8
And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.
And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
www.htmlbible.com /kjv30/B06C008.htm   (961 words)

  
 Jehovah's Witnesses: Watchtower Society Official Web Site
The Bible has the power to mold our thinking, help us solve problems, and improve the quality of our life.
Despite the medical advances of the 20th century, many fear the worst is yet to come.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. is a legal organization in use by Jehovah’s Witnesses.
www.watchtower.org   (182 words)

  
 Jerusalem to nablus - part 2
The earliest biblical reference to Ai is found in Genesis 12:8 in which the patriarch Abram (Abraham) pitched his tent in the hills between Ai and Bethel and built an altar.
Ai probably functioned as a defensive position guarding Bethel, or it was a substantial fortified city in its own right.
According to Bible, it was situated "near Beth Aven to the east of Bethel." (Joshua 7:2), and north of Michmash (Isaiah 10:28).
www.ourfatherlutheran.net /biblehomelands/palestine/ramallah-nablus.htm   (5598 words)

  
 Ai - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Adobe Illustrator (.ai (file format))(AI), as the file extension for the native file format and abbreviation of this application
In Spanish, ai makes the IPA [ai] sound as in the English word I.
Ai, Technology, Digraph, Television and Film, Medicine, Geography, People, Chinese people, Japanese people, Other non-fictional people, Mythical and fictional people, Organizations, Other and See also.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Ai   (430 words)

  
 Ai Forums - The Artificial Intelligence Forum
If you debunk the Mentifex AI as a bunch of amateurish hokum, then you have made a name for yourself as the brilliant genius who finally exposed Mentifex as some kind of delusional fraud.
OTOH, if you see what you can do to further develop the Mentifex AI, as the fellow who is on the verge of applying for a Mentifex research grant in Canada has done, you may advance the AI state of the art.
Those who do buy "AI For You" may discover eventually that they have held onto a rare Gutenberg bible of AI by virtue of the fact that, since nobody else is buying AI4U, those who do have an extremely rare copy -- especially if it's the hardbound AI4U with original dust jacket.
www.ai-forum.org /topic.asp?forum_id=1&topic_id=8217   (755 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Europa Portugalis (No Posting)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
I can't guarantee optimal AI performance with a different patch or on a different aggression level or difficulty level.
The major powers have the most detail in their AI performance as well as in additional historical events of which there are quite a few.
Those major AIs may still be formidable and they will have stronger economies, so expect them to be able to field tougher armies and more ships with less let up in fighting.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?p=3902723   (3010 words)

  
 BBE Bible - Joshua 8
8:2 And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.
8:14 Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.
8:20 Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the town going up to heaven, and were unable to go this way or that: and the people who had gone in flight to the waste land were turned back on those who were coming after them.
www.godrules.net /library/bbe/bbejos8.htm   (1057 words)

  
 Daily Bible Reading - Joshua 6-10 - Tuesday, December 26, 2006
The men of Ai looked back and saw the smoke of the city rising against the sky, but they had no chance to escape in any direction, for the Israelites who had been fleeing toward the desert had turned back against their pursuers.
When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the desert where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it.
Now Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and totally destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon had made a treaty of peace with Israel and were living near them.
www.bible-reading.com /cgi-bin/daily-reading.cgi/NIV-9   (4478 words)

  
 Ancient Days :: Locating Biblical Bethel :: by David Livingston
The Bible nowhere states that Bethel was burned by Joshua.
The slight divergence between Jerome and Eusebius which is often only one mile can be accounted for by the fact that a site is seldom so small as to be only at one milestone and also that in the seventy-five years the roads and starting points normally would change slightly” (Wolf 1964: 77-78).
Studies in the Bible, and on toponymy, topography, archaeology, geography, etc., are interesting, and can be very helpful.
www.ancientdays.net /bethel14.htm   (4622 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Amplified Intelligence: Machines as Brain Boosters
We think of AI as meaning "Amplified Intelligence." The interesting thing is that many traditional AI technologies in fact are being used in just this way.
But to return to the question: search is certainly a central technique in AI, but the search spaces arising in AI are often impossibly huge, and a more interesting aspect is not so much how to search them efficiently as how to re-cast problems so that the search space itself is reduced in size.
The moral of recent AI work is that this is a continuum.
www.space.com /businesstechnology/amplified_intelligence_040804.html   (1892 words)

  
 Joshua Chapter 8 - Young s Literal Translation
and thou hast done to Ai and to her king as thou hast done to Jericho and to her king; only, its spoil and its cattle ye spoil for yourselves; set for thee an ambush for the city at its rear.'
And Joshua sendeth them away, and they go unto the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai; and Joshua lodgeth on that night in the midst of the people.
And the men of Ai look behind them, and see, and lo, the smoke of the city hath gone up unto the heavens, and there hath not been in them power to flee hither and thither -- and the people who are fleeing to the wilderness have turned against the pursuer, --
www.speedbibledictionary.com /ylt/B06C008.htm   (966 words)

  
 Crosswalk.com - Bible Pathways 03/15/2002
Sin of Achan; Israelites defeated by Ai; judgment of Achan; then Ai defeated by the Israelites; altar built on Mount Ebal; Israel's Covenant with God renewed; all the words of the Law read.
Joshua needed a reminder that Jehovah Himself was their Captain, their Commander-in-Chief, and that He alone could issue orders that would result in success (see Joshua 5:13-15).
This time, Ai and all the people were destroyed, but not one Israelite was killed.
www.crosswalk.com /faith/devotionals/biblepathways/1127506.html   (592 words)

  
 Welcome to Kachin Bible Home Page
There are numerous languages and dialects spoken by Kachin tribesmen and among them Jinghpaw was used in translating the Bible.
They have their first Bible in 1927 by missionary translator Ola Hanson.
Quotations of the Holy Bible in Kachin Language in any form, must obtain written permission from the Bible Society of Myanmar if the quoted material is inclusive of at least 1,000 verses, or a copy of any book wholly or partially which amounts to 50% of the book quoted.
www.myanmarbible.com /documents/617.html   (144 words)

  
 ai
There was no city of Ai at the time the Bible says there was.
The following is a chart of the archaeology of the City of Ai, which is generally accepted to be accurate by the archaeological community.
But the dates are obviously wrong because the Bible maintains that the conquest took place around 1400 BC and the archaeologists maintain it took place around 1200 BC.
www.biblemysteries.com /lectures/ai.htm   (974 words)

  
 Geneva Study Bible - Commentary on Joshua Chapter 8
8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city
Stretch out the spear that [is] in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand.
8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and
bible.christiansunite.com /gen.cgi?b=Jos&c=8   (675 words)

  
 Daily Scripture Readings from the Third Millennium Bible (TMB) for April 8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
See, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai and his people and his city and his land.
16 And all the people who were in Ai were called together to pursue after them, and they pursued after Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way; and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
www.tmbible.com /DailyScriptureReadings/scriptureApril8.htm   (1256 words)

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