Joshua 8:27

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 8:2 : 2 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!”
  • Josh 11:4 : 4 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.
  • Ps 50:10 : 10 For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
  • Num 31:22 : 22 ‘Only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
  • Num 31:26 : 26 “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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 2:35
    85%

    35We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

  • Josh 8:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    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!”

  • Deut 3:7
    82%

    7But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

  • Deut 20:14
    80%

    14However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.

  • Josh 11:12-15
    4 verses
    80%

    12Joshua captured all these royal cities and all their kings and annihilated them with the sword, as Moses the LORD’s servant had commanded.

    13But Israel did not burn any of the cities located on mounds, except for Hazor; it was the only one Joshua burned.

    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.

    15Moses the LORD’s servant passed on the LORD’s commands to Joshua, and Joshua did as he was told. He did not ignore any of the commands the LORD had given Moses.

  • Josh 8:26
    79%

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

  • Num 31:11
    78%

    11They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

  • Josh 8:8
    78%

    8When you capture the city, set it on fire in keeping with the Lord’s message. See, I have given you orders.”

  • Josh 8:28
    77%

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

  • Josh 8:21-24
    4 verses
    75%

    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 6:24
    75%

    24But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the LORD’s house.

  • Josh 10:30
    75%

    30The LORD handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel put the sword to all who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to its king what they had done to the king of Jericho.

  • Josh 6:21
    75%

    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 8:16-17
    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 11:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8The LORD handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, Misrephoth Maim, and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

    9Joshua did to them as the LORD had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

  • Josh 11:23
    74%

    23Joshua conquered the whole land, just as the LORD had promised Moses, and he assigned Israel their tribal portions. Then the land was free of war.

  • Josh 7:24
    74%

    24Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, along with the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, ox, donkey, sheep, tent, and all that belonged to him and brought them up to the Valley of Disaster.

  • Josh 10:20
    73%

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

  • Josh 10:39-40
    2 verses
    73%

    39They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding cities and put the sword to them. They annihilated everyone who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to Debir and its king what they had done to Libnah and its king and to Hebron.

    40Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.

  • Josh 11:19
    73%

    19No city made peace with the Israelites(except the Hivites living in Gibeon); they had to conquer all of them,

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

    29They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.

  • Josh 8:19
    73%

    19When he held out his hand, the men waiting in ambush rose up quickly from their place and attacked. They entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

  • Josh 8:13
    73%

    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.

  • Num 31:9
    73%

    9The Israelites took the women of Midian captive along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.

    16You must gather all of its plunder into the middle of the plaza and burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. It will be an abandoned ruin forever– it must never be rebuilt again.

  • Josh 11:6
    72%

    6The LORD told Joshua,“Don’t be afraid of them, for about this time tomorrow I will cause all of them to lie dead before Israel. You must hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.”

  • Josh 10:42
    72%

    42Joshua captured in one campaign all these kings and their lands, for the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.