Joshua 8:27
But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.
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28So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.
Cross References
Numbers 31:22But gold and silver and brass and iron and tin and lead,
Deuteronomy 3:7But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.
Joshua 11:4And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.
Matthew 20:15Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
Matthew Henry on Joshua 8:24-30
23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 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 smote it with the edge of the sword. 25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. 26 For Joshua drew not… Read the whole commentary →