Joshua 8:27

27 Only, the cattle and the spoil of the city Israel took as prey to themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which he had 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 so it was, that all who fell that day, men as well as women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.

26 And Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had stretched out with the javelin, until they had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

27 Only, the cattle and the spoil of the city Israel took as prey to themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which he had commanded Joshua.

28 And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.

29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his carcase down from the tree, and threw it down at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised upon it a great heap of stones, [which remains] to this day.