Joshua 8:27

only, the cattle and the spoil of that city have Israel spoiled for themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which He commanded Joshua.

Young's Literal Translation

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

26And Joshua hath not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin till that he hath devoted all the inhabitants of Ai;

28And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during — a desolation unto this day;

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Cross References

Numbers 31:22only, the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Deuteronomy 3:7and all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we have spoiled for ourselves.

Joshua 11:4and they go out, they and all their camps with them, a people numerous, as the sand which [is] on the sea-shore for multitude, and horse and charioteer very many;

Matthew 20:15is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine 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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