Cross References

Joshua 8:27

New English Translation

But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in accordance with the Lord’s orders to Joshua.

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For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.

‘Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots.

Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king, except you may plunder its goods and cattle. Set an ambush behind the city!”

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).