Joshua 8:27
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty unto themselves, according to the word of the Lord which he had commanded Joshua.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
28And Joshua burnt 'Ai, and made it a ruinous heap of desolation for ever, even unto this day,
Cross References
Numbers 31:22Nevertheless 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 to ourselves.
Joshua 11:4And they went out, they and all their camps with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore in multitude, and with very many horses and chariots.
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 →