Joshua 8:25

25 and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand -- all men of Ai.

Joshua 8:25 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 8:25

And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day
Partly in the city, and partly in the field, both by the ambush and the army: both of men and women;

[were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of Ai;
so that the city was not a very large one, and the numbers of inhabitants were comparatively but few, as in ( Joshua 7:3 ) .

Joshua 8:25 In-Context

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

24 And it cometh to pass, at Israel's finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them (and they fall all of them by the mouth of the sword till their consumption), that all Israel turn back to Ai, and smite it by the mouth of the sword;

25 and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand -- all men of Ai.

26 And Joshua hath not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin till that he hath devoted all the inhabitants of Ai;

27 only, the cattle and the spoil of that city have Israel spoiled for themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which He commanded Joshua.