Joshua 8:28 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day. ”

• Joshua 8:28 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for (l) ever, [even] a desolation unto this day. (l) That it could never be built again.

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• Joshua 8:28 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  heap. Its only name to-day is "Tell". the Heap.

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• Joshua 8:28 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day. Unto this day - This last clause was probably added by a later hand.

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• Joshua 8:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 28. And Joshua burnt Ai, &c.— After giving up the city to plunder, according to the express command of God, Joshua caused it to be burnt to ashes, leaving there only a heap of stones,...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day. Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, х teel ( H8510 ), heap of ruins]. "For ever" often signi...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  An heap for ever. — Heb., Tel-ôlam; modern name, Et-tel.

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• Joshua 8:28 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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,...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Joshua burnt Ai ,.... The whole city, fire being only set before to a few houses, to make a smoke as a signal; he did with it as he had done with Jericho, for so he was ordered, Joshua 8:2 ;...

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• Joshua 8:28 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, [even] a desolation unto this day. Ver. 28. And Joshua burnt Ai. ] See Trapp on " Jos 8:8 "

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• Joshua 8:28 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  For ever, or, for a long time, as that word oft signifies, as Genesis 6:3 Isaiah 42:14 ; for that it was after some ages rebuilt, may seem from Nehemiah 11:31 , unless that were another cit...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap (a mound - ‘tel') for ever, even a desolation to this day.' This must have been written before the later restoration of Ai which, if the usual site is accep...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 8:28 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Ai Taken and Destroyed

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• Joshua 8:28 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 19:25 ; Deuteronomy 13:16 ; Isaiah 17:1 ; Isaiah 25:2 ; Jeremiah 49:2 ; Jeremiah 50:26 ; Jeremiah 9:11 ; Joshua 4:9 ; Micah 3:12

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