Joshua 8:30

Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel in mount Gaebal,

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,

In Context

29And he hanged the king of Gai on a + 8:29 Gr. double tree. gallows; and he remained on the tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into + 8:29 Gr. the pit or trench. For vv. 30-35, see chap. 8:2. a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones until this day.

31as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, on which iron + 8:31 Gr. was not lifted up. had not been lifted up; and he offered there whole burnt offerings to the Lord, and a peace-offering.

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Cross References

Genesis 8:20And Noe built an altar to the Lord, and took of all clean beasts, and of all clean birds, and offered a whole burnt offering upon the altar.

Genesis 12:8And he departed thence to the mountain eastward of Baethel, and there he pitched his tent in Baethel near the sea, and Aggai toward the east, and there he built an altar to the Lord, and called on the name of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 27:4And it shall be as soon as you⌃ are gone over Jordan, you⌃ shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, on mount Gaebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.

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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