Joshua 8:23 “But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.”

Joshua 8:23

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And the King of Ai they tooke aliue, and brought him to Ioshua.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

and the king of Ai they caught alive, and bring him near unto Joshua.

Bible in Basic English

But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.

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Cross references

“And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.”

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

1 Samuel 15:8 · BSB

He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.

Joshua 8:29 · BSB

He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks,…

Joshua 10:17 · BSB

And Joshua was informed: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”

Revelation 19:20 · BSB

But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces on both sides. So Israel struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained.

24When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.

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