Ai

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. A royal city of the Canaanites
• Conquest and destruction ofJoshua 7:8
• RebuiltEzra 2:28
• Also called AIJANehemiah 11:31
• And AIATHIsaiah 10:28
• Population ofJoshua 8:25
• 2. A city of the AmmonitesJeremiah 49:3

The passages, in Bible order (6)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 6 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Joshua 7:8

   O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

   ›Commentary on Joshua 7:81 voice

   “O Lord, what shall I say,.... For the comfort and encouragement of the people of Israel, in vindication of thy power and faithfulness, and against the charge of weakness in thyself, unfaithfulness to thy promises, and unkindness to thy people, brought by our enemies: when Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies? or after they have done it; what is to be said now, this being the case? he speaks as a man confounded, and at the utmost loss how to account for the power, the providence, and promises of God.

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2. Joshua 8:25

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

   ›Commentary on Joshua 8:251 voice

   “And so it was, that all that fell that day,.... Partly in the city, and partly in the field, both by the ambush and the army: both of men and women: were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai; so that the city was not a very large one, and the numbers of inhabitants were comparatively but few, as in Jos 7:3.

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3. Ezra 2:28

   the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;

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4. Nehemiah 11:31

   The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;

   ›Commentary on Nehemiah 11:311 voice

   “The children also of Benjamin, from Geba, dwelt at Michmash,.... Geba was a city on the southern border of Benjamin, Jos 18:24 and Michmash on the northern, of which see 1Sa 13:2 in this and the four following verses are the names of several cities in the tribe of Benjamin, inhabited by the men of that tribe, as Alia, the same with Ai, that lay on the east of Bethel, here also mentioned, see Jos 7:2 Anathoth, the birth place of Jeremiah the prophet, Jer 1:1. Nob, a city of the priests, 1Sa 21:

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5. Isaiah 10:28

   Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.

   ›Commentary on Isaiah 10:282 voices

   “(Verse 28 and following) He will come to Aiath, he will pass through Migron: at Machmas he will deposit his baggage. They went with haste to Geba, our city (or as we find elsewhere written: they stayed at the lodging place); Ramah was astonished, Gibeah of Saul fled. Cry out with your voice, daughter of Gallim; listen, Laishah, poor Anathoth: Medemena has taken flight; the inhabitants of Gebim, gather yourselves together. There is still a day, to stand at Nob: he will shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

   “He is come to Aiath,....

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6. Jeremiah 49:3

   Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 49:32 voices

   “Howl, O Heshbon,....

   “Ai - Not the town on the west of the Jordan Jos 7:2; a place not mentioned elsewhere. For Ai some read Ar. Hedges - Fields were not divided by hedges until recent times; the term probably means the walls which enclose the vineyards Num 22:24.

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