Joshua 8:27

Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded 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

26Joshua did not draw back the hand that held his battle lance until he had devoted to destruction all who lived in Ai.

28So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

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Cross References

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

Deuteronomy 3:7But all the livestock and plunder of the cities we carried off for ourselves.

Joshua 11:4So these kings came out with all their armies, a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore, along with a great number of horses and chariots.

Matthew 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

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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