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Joshua 8:24

in Joshua 8

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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

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 pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

KJV

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.

This verse in Joshua 8

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. - This must refer to the women, children, and old persons, left behind; for it is likely that all the effective men had sallied out when they imagined the Israelites had fled. See Jos 8:16.

This site's exposition

king of Ai they took

on Joshua 8:23-25

Twelve thousand is the whole population, men and women counted together, so the spies at 7:3 were right that the town was small. What they had wrong was what the size of a town had to do with the outcome, since the defeat came from the accursed thing named at 7:11. Clarke reads verse 24 of those left inside, the women and children and old men, since the fighting strength had gone out after Israel.

The words behind it

27 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְהִ֣יand it was

    vayhiH19613559 times

  • כְּכַלּ֣וֹתwhen had finished

    kekhalotH3615208 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֡לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • לַהֲרֹג֩to kill

    laharogH2026167 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • יֹשְׁבֵ֨י[the] inhabitants of

    yosheveiH34271079 times

  • הָעַ֜י<the> Ai

    haaiH585740 times

  • בַּשָּׂדֶ֗הin the open country

    basadehH7704334 times

  • בַּמִּדְבָּר֙in the wilderness

    bamidbarH4057270 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • רְדָפ֣וּםthey had pursued them

    redafumH7291143 times

  • בּ֔וֹin <the> it

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  • וַֽיִּפְּל֥וּand they had fallen

    vaiyipeluH5307435 times

  • כֻלָּ֛םall of them

    khulamH36055413 times

  • לְפִי־to [the] mouth of

    lefi-H6310498 times

  • חֶ֖רֶב[the] sword

    cherevH2719413 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • תֻּמָּ֑םwere finished they

    tumamH855263 times

  • וַיָּשֻׁ֤בוּand they returned

    vaiyashuvuH77251056 times

  • כָל־all

    khol-H36055413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • הָעַ֔י<the> Ai

    haaiH585740 times

  • וַיַּכּ֥וּand they attacked

    vaiyakuH5221499 times

  • אֹתָ֖הּ<obj.> it

    ʾotahH85310935 times

  • לְפִי־to [the] mouth of

    lefi-H6310498 times

  • חָֽרֶב׃[the] sword

    charevH2719413 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Numbers 21:24

    And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.

    it leads to

    • Amos 2:9

      Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and…

    • Genesis 32:22

      During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

    • Psalms 136:19

      Sihon king of the Amorites His loving devotion endures forever.

    • Joshua 24:8

      Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I…

    • Nehemiah 9:22

      You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.

About Joshua

Joshua Burns the Town of Ai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Joshua Burns the Town of Ai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.