Joshua 8:25

25 A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people 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 But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

24 When 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.

25 A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

26 Joshua did not draw back the hand that held his battle lance until he had devoted to destruction all who lived in Ai.

27 Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.