Joshua 8:26
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| Overview - Joshua 8 | |
| 1 | God encourages Joshua. |
| 3 | The stratagem whereby Ai was taken. |
| 29 | The king thereof is hanged. |
| 30 | Joshua builds an altar; |
| 32 | writes the law on stones; |
| 33 | and pronounces the blessings and curses. |
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Joshua 8:26 (King James Version)
For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
- Joshua
- Joshua seems to have been not only the general but the standard-bearer of the army, (ver. 18,) and continued in this employment, by holding up or extending his spear, during the whole of the battle; and did not slacken from the pursuit till the forces of Ai were utterly discomfited. Some commentators, however, understand this action in a figurative sense, like the holding up of Moses' hands, as if it implied that Joshua continued in prayer for the success of his troops, nor ceased till the armies of Ai were annihilated, and the city taken and destroyed.
- drew not
- 18 ; Exodus 17:11 Exodus 17:12