Joshua 8:25

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Twelve thousand men and women died that day, including all the men of Ai.

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  • Deut 20:16-18 : 16 Laws Concerning War with Canaanite Nations As for the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive. 17 Instead you must utterly annihilate them– the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites– just as the LORD your God has commanded you, 18 so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.

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  • Josh 8:20-24
    5 verses
    82%

    20When the men of Ai turned around, they saw the smoke from the city ascending into the sky and were so shocked they were unable to flee in any direction. In the meantime the men who were retreating to the wilderness turned against their pursuers.

    21When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the city was going up in smoke, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

    22At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.

    23But they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

    24When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had chased them toward the wilderness(they all fell by the sword), all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

  • Josh 8:26
    79%

    26Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.

  • Josh 8:10-14
    5 verses
    76%

    10Bright and early the next morning Joshua gathered the army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched at the head of it to Ai.

    11All the troops that were with him marched up and drew near the city. They camped north of Ai on the other side of the valley.

    12He took five thousand men and set an ambush west of the city between Bethel and Ai.

    13The army was in position– the main army north of the city and the rear guard west of the city. That night Joshua went into the middle of the valley.

    14When the king of Ai saw Israel, they rushed to get up early. Then the men of the city went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people, at the meeting place near the rift valley. But he did not realize an ambush was waiting for him behind the city.

  • Josh 7:2-5
    4 verses
    75%

    2Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai(which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel) and instructed them,“Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

    3They returned and reported to Joshua,“Don’t send the whole army. About two or three thousand men are adequate to defeat Ai. Don’t tire out the whole army, for Ai is small.”

    4So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai.

    5The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them and chased them from in front of the city gate all the way to the fissures and defeated them on the steep slope. The people’s courage melted away like water.

  • Josh 8:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16All the reinforcements in Ai were ordered to chase them; they chased Joshua and were lured away from the city.

    17No men were left in Ai or Bethel; they all went out after Israel. They left the city wide open and chased Israel.

  • Josh 6:21
    72%

    21They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

  • Josh 8:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1Israel Conquers Ai The LORD told Joshua,“Don’t be afraid and don’t panic! Take the whole army with you and march against Ai! See, I am handing over to you the king of Ai, along with his people, city, and land.

    2Do 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!”

    3Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai. Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

  • Josh 8:28-29
    2 verses
    72%

    28Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound(it remains that way to this very day).

    29He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening. At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones(it remains to this very day).

  • Judg 20:21
    70%

    21The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.

  • Judg 21:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors against Jabesh Gilead. They commanded them,“Go and kill with your swords the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children.

    11Do this: exterminate every male, as well as every woman who has experienced a man’s bed. But spare the lives of any virgins.” So they did as instructed.

  • Judg 20:25
    70%

    25The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    69%

    7The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.

  • Ezra 2:28
    69%

    28the men of Bethel and Ai: 223;

  • Deut 2:16
    69%

    16Instructions Concerning Ammon So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

  • Judg 20:44
    69%

    44Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.

  • Judg 8:10
    69%

    10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.

  • Neh 7:32
    68%

    32the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;

  • Josh 12:9
    68%

    9the king of Jericho(one), the king of Ai– located near Bethel–(one),

  • Judg 20:35
    68%

    35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.

  • Judg 20:46
    68%

    46That day twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.

  • Num 25:9
    68%

    9Those that died in the plague were 24,000.

  • Josh 10:20
    68%

    20Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.

  • Josh 11:11
    68%

    11They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword– no one who breathed remained– and burned Hazor.

  • Num 31:35
    67%

    35and 32,000 young womenwho had not experienced a man’s bed.

  • Deut 2:34
    67%

    34At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

  • Josh 11:14
    67%

    14The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people and allowed no one who breathed to live.

  • 2 Chr 28:6
    67%

    6In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors.