Joshua 8:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, threw it down at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset, Joshua commanded and they took the body down from the tree and cast it at the entrance of the city gate and raised a great heap of stones over it that is there to this day.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.

Common English Bible

²⁹ He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. At sundown, Joshua gave an order, and they took his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the opening of the city gate. Then they raised over it a great pile of stones that is still there today.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ Also, he suspended the king on a gallows, until evening and the setting of the sun. And Joshua instructed, and they took down his dead body from the hanging tree. And they cast it at the very entrance of the city, gathering a great pile of stones upon it, which remains even to the present day.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet until the evening and the going down of the sun. Then Josue commanded, and they took down his carcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entrance of the city, heaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day.

Joshua 8:29 Cross References

2 Samuel 18:17

They took Absalom, threw him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Meanwhile all the Israelites fled to their homes.

Esther 7:10

So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Psalm 107:40

he pours contempt on princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes,

Psalm 110:5

The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.

John 19:31

Since it was the day of Preparation, the Jews did not want the bodies left on the cross during the Sabbath, especially because that Sabbath was a day of great solemnity. So they asked Pilate to have the legs of the crucified men broken and the bodies removed.

Acts 12:23

And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Joshua 10:30

The Lord gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel, and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left no one remaining in it, and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:33

Then King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people, leaving him no survivors.

Joshua 12:9

the king of Jericho one the king of Ai, which is next to Bethel one

Joshua 7:26

and raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore that place to this day is called the Valley of Achor.

Joshua 8:23

But the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.