Joshua 8:27

27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua.

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 And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

26 For Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua.

28 So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

29 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.