Joshua 8:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Bible Comments

And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day,.... Partly in the city, and partly in the field, both by the ambush and the army: both of men and women;

[were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of Ai; so that the city was not a very large one, and the numbers of inhabitants were comparatively but few, as in Joshua 7:3.

Joshua 8:25

25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.