“ And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. ”
Capture of Ai. Here we have the second and the successful attempt to take Ai. That two accounts have been combined is obvious. In Joshua 8:3 Joshua sends 30,000 men as an ambuscade against the ci...
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. The king of Ai they took alive - to be reserved for a more ignominious death, as a greater criminal in God's sight than his subj...
The Conquest of Ai. The Covenant confirmed upon Mt. Ebal 1-29. The Taking of Ai. Edersheim explains that Joshua detailed a corps of 30,000 men, of whom 5,000 were placed W. of Ai in a wood. The 25...
CHAPTER XVI. THE CAPTURE OF AI. Joshua 8:1-29 . JOSHUA, having dealt faithfully with the case of Achan, whose sin had intercepted the favour of God, is again encouraged, and directed to renew,...
the Enemy Completely Destroyed Joshua 8:18-29 Joshua's preparations were skillfully made, and in that very place where Israel had been so disastrously defeated they scored a great victory and t...
As the result of the severity of the discipline exercised in the case of Achan, the nation returned to obedience, and consequently Jehovah immediately uttered the word of reassurance to Joshua and th...
The sacred historian relates in those verses, the improvement which Israel made of their victory; and a glorious one it was; because there was nothing done here, but what was agreeable to the divine...
And the king of Ai they took alive ,.... They spared him, and reserved him for a more shameful death: and brought him to Joshua ; their general; delivering him into his hands as his prisoner, to d...
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. Ver. 23. And the king of Ai they took alive. ] His preservation was but a reservation to a more solemn execution: so Rev 19:20 the be...
They entered and set the city on fire That is, some part of it, sufficient to raise a smoke, and give notice to their brethren of their success. But certainly not all of it, because in that case th...
AI TOTALLY DESTROYED (vs.1-29) Now the Lord gives explicit instructions to Joshua as to attacking Ai. How different these were to the plans Joshua used at first! God tells Joshua not to be afraid...
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 wh...
Reserving him to a peculiar and more ignominious punishment, for the terror of the other kings, who were the chief causes of all that opposition and disturbance which Israel met with in gaining the p...
‘ And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.' The general who had initially been so successful and who had finally led to defeat not only his own men, but the men of Bethel as...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 8:3 . Thirty thousand … and sent them away] Probably 30,000 was the entire number chosen to operate against Ai, and of these 5000 were sent, as stated in Joshua 8:12 , to...
Joshua 8:4 . Ye shall lie in wait: la ruse du guerre. The craft of war is lawful, if war itself be lawful; and experience is often of more avail than strength. Joshua 8:25 . Twelve thousand. H...
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war. All the people at work for Jesus I. Consider the advice of the spies which led to such a shameful defeat ( Joshua 7:3 ). 1. Here we shall have to...
EXPOSITION THE CAPTURE OF AI .— Joshua 8:1 Fear not. Joshua was down cast at his former failure, and well he might. "Treacherous Israelites are to be dreaded more than malicious C...
Ai Taken and Destroyed
1 Samuel 15:8 ; Joshua 10:17 ; Joshua 8:29 ; Revelation 19:20
Took alive — Reserving him to a more ignominious punishment.