Joshua 8:27

Only, the cattle and the spoil of the city Israel took as prey to themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which he had commanded Joshua.

Darby Translation

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

26And Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had stretched out with the javelin, until they had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

28And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.

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Cross References

Numbers 31:22Only the gold, and the silver, the copper, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Deuteronomy 3:7But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.

Joshua 11:4And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a people numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.

Matthew 20:15is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine 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 →

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