Joshua 8:27

Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he 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

26For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

28So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

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Cross References

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

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

Joshua 11:4They went out, they and all their armies with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.

Matthew 20:15Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

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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