Joshua 8:27

New International Reader's Version

But this time Israel kept for themselves the livestock and everything else they had taken from the city. The Lord had directed Joshua to let them do it.

Cross References

Psalm 50:10

Every animal in the forest already belongs to me. And so do the cattle on a thousand hills.

Numbers 31:22

All your gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin and lead

Numbers 31:26

“Here is what you and Eleazar the priest and the family leaders of the community must do. You must count all the people and animals you captured.

Matthew 20:15

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Do you feel cheated because I gave so freely to the others?’

Deuteronomy 3:7

But we kept for ourselves the livestock and everything else we took from their cities.

Joshua 11:4

Those kings marched out with all their troops. They had a large number of horses and chariots. It was a huge army. The fighting men were as many as the grains of sand on the seashore.

Joshua 8:2

Remember what you did to Jericho and its king. You will do the same thing to Ai and its king. But this time you can keep for yourselves the livestock and everything else you take from them. Have some of your fighting men hide behind the city and take them by surprise.”

Joshua 8:28

So Joshua burned down Ai. He tore it down so it could never be built again. It has been deserted to this very day.