Joshua 8:25
23 But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
24 When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
- KJV
- And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
- WEB
- All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
- ASV
- And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
- DARBY
- And so it was, that all who fell that day, men as well as women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.
- BLB
- And all who fell that day, from man and to woman, were two [and] ten thousand—all the men of Ai.
- ÅB
- Og de som falt på den dag, menn og kvinner, var tolv tusen, alle Ais innbyggere.
- OTB
- Den dagen omkom tolv tusen menn og kvinner av Ai—alle dets folk.
- B1930
- Og de som falt på den dag, menn og kvinner, var tolv tusen, alle Ais innbyggere.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 20:16–18
However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes.
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