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Christian Standard Bible ®

Joshua 8:23

but they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ai;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ambush;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ai;   Arms;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ai;   Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ai;   Israel;   Joshua;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ai, Hai ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ai;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ai;  

Parallel Translations

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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the kyng of Ai they toke aliue, and brought him to Iosuah.
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

23but they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.24When Israel had finished killing everyone living in Ai who had pursued them into the open country, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword. 25The total of those who fell that day, both men and women, was twelve thousand—all the people of Ai. 26Joshua did not draw back his hand that was holding the javelin until all the inhabitants of Ai were completely destroyed. 27Israel plundered only the cattle and spoil of that city for themselves, according to the Lord’s command that he had given Joshua. 28Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, still desolate today. 29He hung the body of the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which still remains today.

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.


 
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