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Joshua 8:27-29
Amplified Bible
Joshua 8:27-29
Amplified Bible
27 Israel took only the livestock and the spoil of that city as plunder for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He had commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a [a]rubbish heap forever, a desolation until this day. 29 He [b]hanged [the body of] the king of Ai on a tree [leaving it there] until evening; at sunset Joshua gave a command and they took the body down from the tree and dumped it at the entrance of the city gate, and piled a great heap of stones over it that stands to this day.
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- Joshua 8:28 Heb tel.
- Joshua 8:29 This was not an execution by hanging; the king was killed beforehand, probably with a sword, then his body was hung up (or impaled) to further shame him in the minds of others.
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