Verse 29
Joshua 8:29
Young's Literal Translation
29
and the king of Ai he hath hanged on the tree till even-time, and at the going in of the sun hath Joshua commanded, and they take down his carcase from the tree, and cast it unto the opening of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones till this day.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אֶת מֶ֧לֶךְ הָ/עַ֛י תָּלָ֥ה עַל הָ/עֵ֖ץ עַד עֵ֣ת הָ/עָ֑רֶב וּ/כְ/ב֣וֹא הַ/שֶּׁמֶשׁ֩ צִוָּ֨ה יְהוֹשֻׁ֜עַ וַ/יֹּרִ֧ידוּ אֶת נִבְלָת֣/וֹ מִן הָ/עֵ֗ץ וַ/יַּשְׁלִ֤יכוּ אוֹתָ/הּ֙ אֶל פֶּ֨תַח֙ שַׁ֣עַר הָ/עִ֔יר וַ/יָּקִ֤ימוּ עָלָי/ו֙ גַּל אֲבָנִ֣ים גָּד֔וֹל עַ֖ד הַ/יּ֥וֹם הַ/זֶּֽה
English Translation
And they hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and when the sun set, Joshua commanded, and they took down his body from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and they raised a great heap of stones over it to this day.
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Chapter 8 Context
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And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'Fear not, nor be affrighted, take with thee all the people of war, a...
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and thou hast done to Ai and to her king as thou hast done to Jericho and to her king; only, its spo...
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And Joshua riseth, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooseth thirty thousand me...
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and commandeth them, saying, 'See, ye are liers in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, y...
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and I and all the people who [are] with me draw near unto the city, and it hath come to pass when th...
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and they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are flee...
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and ye rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and Jehovah your God (Elohim) hath given it...
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and it hath been, when ye capture the city, ye burn the city with fire, according to the word of Jeh...
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And Joshua sendeth them away, and they go unto the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the w...
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And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and inspecteth the people, and goeth up, he and the elders o...
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and all the people of war who [are] with him have gone up, and draw nigh and come in over-against th...
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And he taketh about five thousand men, and setteth them an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west...
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and they set the people, all the camp which [is] on the north of the city, and its rear on the west...
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And it cometh to pass, when the king of Ai seeth [it], that hasten, and rise early, and go out do th...
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And Joshua and all Israel [seem] stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,
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and all the people who [are] in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Josh...
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and there hath not been left a man in Ai and Bethel who hath not gone out after Israel, and they lea...
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18
And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'Stretch out with the javelin which [is] in thy hand towards Ai, for...
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and the ambush hath risen [with] haste, out of its place, and they run at the stretching out of his...
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And the men of Ai look behind them, and see, and lo, the smoke of the city hath gone up unto the hea...
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and Joshua and all Israel have seen that the ambush hath captured the city, and that the smoke of th...
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and these have come out from the city to meet them, and they are in the midst of Israel, some on thi...
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and the king of Ai they caught alive, and bring him near unto Joshua.
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24
And it cometh to pass, at Israel's finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the...
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and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand -- all men of Ai.
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And Joshua hath not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin till that he hath...
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only, the cattle and the spoil of that city have Israel spoiled for themselves, according to the wor...
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And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during -- a desolation unto this day;
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29
and the king of Ai he hath hanged on the tree till even-time, and at the going in of the sun hath Jo...
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Then doth Joshua build an altar to Jehovah, God (Elohim) of Israel, in mount Ebal,
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as Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law...
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and he writeth there on the stones the copy of the law of Moses, which he hath written in the presen...
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And all Israel, and its elders, and authorities, and its judges, are standing on this side and on th...
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And afterwards he hath proclaimed all the words of the law, the blessing and the reviling, according...
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there hath not been a thing of all that Moses commanded which Joshua hath not proclaimed before all...
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