Joshua 8:17

Or Bethel - See the Joshua 8:1 note.

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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 Josh...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

man. Hebrew. ish . App-14.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17. And there was not a man left in Ai, etc It will be clear from the context that some were taken in the city and slain, and therefore we m...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. There was not a...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city....
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Or Bethel ] omit, as LXX. 30-35. The Covenant confirmed upon Mt. Ebal, near Shechem. At the first opportunity the law of Jehovah is proclaimed as...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

There was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el. — Another singular justification of the peculiar strategy of Joshua. The road past Beth-el to Ai had bee...
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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ai Again Attacked Joshua 8:1-17 Now that the evil was put away, the people were assured of victory. “I have given,” etc . But the assurance...
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 immediatel...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I pass over, in a short remark, the mercy of the Lord vouchsafed Israel in this victory, to call the Reader's attention, to the manner in which the L...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel that went not out after Israel ,.... For as these two places were very near to each other, but a mile a...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. Ver. 17. And...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

All Israel made as if they were beaten That is, they fled from them, as it were for fear of a second blow. The wilderness Which lay between Ai an...
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 Joshu...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them a...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Not a man, to wit, fit for war. Beth-el , being a neighbouring city, and encouraged by the former success, had sent some forces to assist them; an...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And all the people who were in the city (or Ai) were summoned together to pursue after them, and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away f...
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 th...
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 t...
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 d...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ai Taken and Destroyed
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, the inhabitants of the latter city having joined the forces of Ai, that went not out after Israel; and...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 2:30 ; Isaiah 19:11-13 ; Job 5:13 ; Joshua 11:20 ; Joshua 8:24 ; Joshua 8:25 ; Joshua 8:3
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Conquest of Ai Joshua 8:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Christian conquest depends upon a clean heart. When the Children of Israel went against...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Not a man — Namely, fit for war. Bethel — Which, being a neighbouring city, and encouraged by the former success, had sent some forces to assist th...

¹⁷ And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

Related Commentaries of Joshua 8:17

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 8:17