1 Samuel 15:8; Joshua 10:17; Joshua 8:29; Revelation 19:20
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...
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,...
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...
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...
the Enemy Completely Destroyed Joshua 8:18-29 Joshua's preparations were skillfully made, and in that very place where Israel had been so disas...
As the result of the severity of the discipline exercised in the case of Achan, the nation returned to obedience, and consequently Jehovah immediatel...
The sacred historian relates in those verses, the improvement which Israel made of their victory; and a glorious one it was; because there was nothin...
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; 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 reservati...
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. Bu...
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...
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 in...
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...
‘ 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 def...
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...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION THE CAPTURE OF AI .— Joshua 8:1 Fear not. Joshua was down cast at his former failure, and well he might. "Treacherous...
Ai Taken and Destroyed
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua, who was to rule regarding his disposal.
Took alive — Reserving him to a more ignominious punishment.
23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.