Joshua 8:27

Nevertheless, the cattle and the spoil of that city, Israel took as their own prey,—according to the word of Yahweh, which he commanded Joshua.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

26Now, Joshua, drew not back his hand which he had stretched out with the javelin,—until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

28So then Joshua burned Ai,—and made of it an age-abiding heap—a desolation, [as it remaineth] until this day.

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Cross References

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

Deuteronomy 3:7But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, made we our prey.

Joshua 11:4and they came out—they, and all their hosts with them, much people, like the sand that is upon the seashore for multitude,—with horses and chariots very many.

Matthew 20:15Is it not allowed me to do, what I please, with my own? or is, thine eye, evil, because I 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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