Joshua 8:25

25 The total of those who fell that day, both men and women, was twelve thousand—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 the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.

24 When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and when all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and attacked it with the edge of the sword.

25 The total of those who fell that day, both men and women, was twelve thousand—all the people of Ai.

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

27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their booty, according to the word of the Lord that he had issued to Joshua.