Joshua 8:29

Modern English Version

The king of Ai hanged on a tree until evening. At sunset, Joshua commanded that the people take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the city gate. They erected a large heap of stones over it that remains to this day.

Cross References

2 Samuel 18:17

Then they took Absalom, disposed of him in a large pit in the forest, and piled over him a very large heap of stones. Then all Israel fled, everyone to his home.

Esther 7:10

Then the king said, “Hang him on it!” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Psalm 107:40

He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in a pathless wilderness;

Psalm 110:5

The Lord is at your right hand; He will execute kings in the day of His wrath.

John 19:31

Since it was the Day of Preparation, to prevent bodies from remaining on the cross on the Sabbath day (for that Sabbath day was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

Acts 12:23

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory. And he was eaten by worms and died.

Joshua 10:30

The Lord gave Libnah and its king into the hand of Israel, and they struck all who lived in it with the edge of the sword. There were no survivors left. They did to its king what they had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:33

King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish, but Joshua attacked him and his people until he did not have a single survivor left.

Joshua 12:9

The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

Joshua 7:26

Then they erected over him a large pile of stones, which is still there today. So the Lord turned from His burning anger. Therefore the name of the place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

Joshua 8:23

They took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.