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Joshua 8:29

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He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

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Joshua 8:29 in other translations

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.

Joshua 8:29 · American Standard Version

Joshua 8:29 in context

  1. 27Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.
  2. 28So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
  3. 29He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
  4. 30Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
  5. 31as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.