Joshua 8:27

Then the sons of Israel divided among themselves the cattle and the plunder of the city, just as the Lord had instructed Joshua.

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In The King James Version

Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

In Context

26Truly Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had stretched out on high, keeping hold of the shield until all the inhabitants of Ai were put to death.

28And he set fire to the city, and he caused it to be a perpetual tomb.

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Cross References

Numbers 31:22Gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin,

Deuteronomy 3:7But the cattle and the spoils of the cities, we plundered.

Joshua 11:4And they all went forth with their troops, a people exceedingly numerous, like the sand that is on the shore of the sea. And their horses and chariots were an immense multitude.

Matthew 20:15And is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Or is your eye wicked 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 →

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