Joshua 8:23

23 But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

Joshua 8:23 in Other Translations

23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

23 But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him near to Joshua.

23 Only the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.

23 Except for the king of Ai; they took him alive and brought him to Joshua.

23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

23 But they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

23 but they captured the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.

23 But they took the king of Ai alive. They brought him to Joshua.

Joshua 8:23 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 8:23

And the king of Ai they took alive
They spared him, and reserved him for a more shameful death:

and brought him to Joshua;
their general; delivering him into his hands as his prisoner, to do will, him as seemed good in his sight.

Joshua 8:23 In-Context

21 For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that smoke was going up from it, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai.

22 Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives.

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 in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it.

25 Twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

Cross References

• 1. 1 Samuel 15:8