Joshua 8:29

Joshua hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening. At sunset Joshua ordered his body to be taken down from the tree and thrown down at the entrance to the town-gate. They raised a cairn of stones over it, which is there to this day.

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In The King James Version

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

In Context

28Ai itself Joshua burned, and made it a heap of ruins. To this day it lies desolate.

30Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on mount Ebal,

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Cross References

Joshua 8:23The king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.

Joshua 10:27At sunset Joshua ordered the kings’ bodies to be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave where they had hidden themselves. Some large stones were laid at the mouth of the cave, and are there to this day.

Joshua 10:33King Horam of Gezer advanced to relieve Lachish, but Joshua defeated him and his army until not a survivor was left to him.

Psalms 107:40he pours contempt upon princes, and on trackless wastes leads them astray

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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