Joshua 8:27

Webster's Bible (1833)

Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 8:2 : 2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only the spoil of it, and the cattle of it, shall you take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the city behind it.
  • Josh 11:4 : 4 They went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
  • Ps 50:10 : 10 For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
  • Num 31:22 : 22 however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
  • Num 31:26 : 26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of animal, you, and Eleazar the priest, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the congregation;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 2:35
    85%

    35only the cattle we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

  • Josh 8:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai; behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land;

    2You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only the spoil of it, and the cattle of it, shall you take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the city behind it.

  • Deut 3:7
    82%

    7But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

  • Deut 20:14
    80%

    14but the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil of it, shall you take for a prey to yourself; and you shall eat the spoil of your enemies, which Yahweh your God has given you.

  • Josh 11:12-15
    4 verses
    80%

    12All the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded.

    13But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.

    14All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.

    15As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua: and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Josh 8:26
    79%

    26For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

  • Num 31:11
    78%

    11They took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of man and of animal.

  • Josh 8:8
    78%

    8It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Yahweh shall you do: behold, I have commanded you.

  • Josh 8:28
    77%

    28So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

  • Josh 8:21-24
    4 verses
    75%

    21When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.

    22The others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

    23The king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

    24It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

  • Josh 6:24
    75%

    24They burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh.

  • Josh 10:30
    75%

    30and Yahweh delivered it also, and the king of it, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he did to the king of it as he had done to the king of Jericho.

  • Josh 6:21
    75%

    21They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

  • Josh 8:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

    17There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

  • Josh 11:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining.

    9Joshua did to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

  • Josh 11:23
    74%

    23So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.

  • Josh 7:24
    74%

    24Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

  • Josh 10:20
    73%

    20It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of killing them with a very great slaughter, until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

  • Josh 10:39-40
    2 verses
    73%

    39and he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king of it; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king of it.

    40So Joshua struck all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.

  • Josh 11:19
    73%

    19There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle.

  • Gen 34:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field;

    29and all their wealth. They took captive all their little ones and their wives, and took as plunder everything that was in the house.

  • Josh 8:19
    73%

    19The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.

  • Josh 8:13
    73%

    13So they set the people, even all the host who was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait who were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

  • Num 31:9
    73%

    9The children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

  • Deut 13:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle of it, with the edge of the sword.

    16You shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street of it, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil of it every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

  • Josh 11:6
    72%

    6Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

  • Josh 10:42
    72%

    42All these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.