Joshua 8:27

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Joshua 8:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible

25 A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

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

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

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

29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Joshua 8:2

And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”

Joshua 11:4

So 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.

Numbers 31:22

Only the gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, and lead—

Numbers 31:26

“You and Eleazar the priest and the family heads of the congregation are to take a count of what was captured, both of man and beast.

Psalms 50:10

for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.

Matthew 20:15

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