Joshua 8:27

27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of Yahweh that Joshua commanded.

Joshua 8:27 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 8:27

Only the cattle, and the spoil of the city, Israel took for a
prey unto themselves
Even all their substance, as besides their cattle, also their gold, silver, household goods, merchandise

according unto the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua,
( Joshua 8:2 ) .

Joshua 8:27 In-Context

25 All the people that fell on that day, both men and women, [were] twelve thousand--all the inhabitants of Ai.

26 For Joshua did not draw back his hand that was stretched out with the sword until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of Yahweh that Joshua commanded.

28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it an everlasting heap of rubbish, a desolate place until this day.

29 The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening, and as the sun went down Joshua commanded [them], and they brought down his dead body from the tree. Then they threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and they raised over it a great heap of stones [that remains] to this day.