Joshua 8:23

and they have caught the king of Ai alive, and bring him near to Joshua.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

In Context

22and these have come out from the city to meet them, and they are in the midst of Israel, some on this [side], and some on that [side], and they strike them until he has not left a remnant and escaped one to them;

24And it comes to pass, at Israel’s finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them (and all of them fall by the mouth of the sword until their consumption), that all of Israel turns back to Ai, and strikes it by the mouth of the sword;

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Cross References

Joshua 10:17and it is declared to Joshua, saying, “The five kings have been found hidden in a cave at Makkedah.”

1 Samuel 15:8and he catches Agag king of Amalek alive, and he has devoted all the people by the mouth of the sword;

Matthew Henry on Joshua 8:4-23

3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night. 4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready: 5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them, 6 (For they will come out… Read the whole commentary →

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