约书亚记 8:24

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

以色列人在田間、在曠野，殺盡了所有追趕他們的艾城的居民，艾城的人全部倒在刀下，直到完全消滅；接著，以色列眾人回到艾城，用刀擊殺了城中的人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
以 色 列 人 在 田 间 和 旷 野 杀 尽 所 追 赶 一 切 艾 城 的 居 民 。 艾 城 人 倒 在 刀 下 ， 直 到 灭 尽 ； 以 色 列 众 人 就 回 到 艾 城 ， 用 刀 杀 了 城 中 的 人 。

Contextual Overview

²³ the king of Ai, and they brought him to Joshua. ²⁴ During the fighting the army of Israel chased the men of Ai into the fields and desert and killed all of them. Then they went back to Ai and killed everyone there. ²⁵ All the people of Ai died that day, twelve thousand men and women. ²⁶ Joshua had held his spear toward Ai, as a sign to destroy the city, and did not draw it back until all the people of Ai were destroyed. ²⁷ The people of Israel kept for themselves the animals and the other things the people of Ai had owned, as the Lord had commanded Joshua to do. ²⁸ Then Joshua burned the city of Ai and made it a pile of ruins. And it is still like that today. ²⁹ Joshua hanged the king of Ai on a tree and left him there until evening. At sunset Joshua told his men to take the king's body down from the tree and to throw it down at the city gate. Then they covered it with a pile of rocks, which is still there today.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

returned unto Ai: This must refer to the women, children, and old persons left behind; for it seems that all the effective men had sallied out when they imagined the Israelites had fled - Joshua 8:16. Joshua 10:30-41, Joshua 11:10-14, Numbers 21:24

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:10 - fell Deuteronomy 7:2 - utterly Joshua 8:2 - do to Ai Joshua 8:17 - a man Joshua 10:20 - had made John 11:54 - Ephraim

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai,.... That came out against them:

in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them; both in the arable lands that were sown with corn, and now clothed with it, the wheat especially, not being gathered in, as not yet ripe, and in the pasture ground, designed by the wilderness, see Joshua 8:15; so Kimchi and Ben Melech interpret it:

and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword; and were slain by it:

until they were consumed; and not one left:

that all the Israelites returned unto Ai; both the ambush that came out of it, and the army that came against it:

and smote it with the edge of the sword; that is, the inhabitants that were left in it unfit for war, as old men, infirm persons, women and children, as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 8:24. Returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. — This must refer to the women, children, and old persons, left behind; for it is likely that all the effective men had sallied out when they imagined the Israelites had fled. See Joshua 8:16.