Joshua 8:23

Bishop's Bible

And the kyng of Ai they toke aliue, and brought him to Iosuah.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
but they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

Hebrew Names Version
The king of `Ai they took alive, and brought him to Yehoshua.

King James Version
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

Lexham English Bible
But they captured the king of Ai alive, and they brought him to Joshua.

English Standard Version
But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him near to Joshua.

New Century Version
the king of Ai, and they brought him to Joshua.

New English Translation
But they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

Amplified Bible
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

New American Standard Bible
But they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the King of Ai they tooke aliue, and brought him to Ioshua.

Legacy Standard Bible
But they seized the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

Complete Jewish Bible
But they took the king of ‘Ai alive and brought him to Y'hoshua.

Darby Translation
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

Easy-to-Read Version
But the king of Ai was left alive. Joshua's men brought him to Joshua.

George Lamsa Translation
And they took the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

Good News Translation
except the king of Ai. He was captured and taken to Joshua.

Literal Translation
And they caught the king of Ai and brought him alive to Joshua.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and they toke the kynge of Hai alyue, and broughte him vnto Iosua.

American Standard Version
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

Bible in Basic English
But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

King James Version (1611)
And the King of Ai they tooke aliue, and brought him to Ioshua.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they took the king of Gai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

English Revised Version
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

Berean Standard Bible
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thei tokun also the kyng of Hay lyuynge, and brouyten to Josue.

Young's Literal Translation
and the king of Ai they caught alive, and bring him near unto Joshua.

Update Bible Version
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

World English Bible
The king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

New King James Version
But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

New Living Translation
Only the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.

New Life Bible
But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

New Revised Standard
But the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the king of Ai, they caught alive, - and brought him near unto Joshua.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they took the king of the city of Hai alive and brought him to Josue.

Revised Standard Version
But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
But they took alive the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.

Contextual Overview

²³ And the kyng of Ai they toke aliue, and brought him to Iosuah. ²⁴ And when Israel had made an ende of slayeng all the inhabitantes of Ai in the fielde of the wildernesse where they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sworde, vntill they were wasted, all the Israelites returned vnto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sworde. ²⁵ And al that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelue thousande, euen all the men of Ai. ²⁶ For Iosuah plucked not his hande backe againe which he stretched out vpo the speare vntil, he had vtterly destroyed al the enhabitours of Ai. ²⁷ Onely the cattell and the spoile of the citie, Israel toke vnto them selues, according vnto the word of the Lorde, whiche he commaunded Iosuah. ²⁸ And Iosuah set Ai on fire, and made it an heape for euer, & a wildernesse, [euen] vnto this day. ²⁹ And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree, vntill euen: And assoone as the sunne was downe, Iosuah commaunded that they should take ye carkasse downe of the tree, and cast it at the entring of the gate of the citie, and laye theron a great heape of stones, [that remaineth] vnto this day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 8:29, Joshua 10:17, 1 Samuel 15:8, Revelation 19:20

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king of Ai they took alive,.... They spared him, and reserved him for a more shameful death:

and brought him to Joshua; their general; delivering him into his hands as his prisoner, to do will, him as seemed good in his sight.