Josué 8:29

Listen to Josué 8:29
29 Mas al rey de Hai lo colg贸 de un madero hasta la tarde; y cuando el sol se puso, mand贸 Josu茅 que quitasen del madero su cuerpo, y lo echasen a la puerta de la ciudad; y levantaron sobre 茅l un gran mont贸n de piedras, hasta hoy.

Josué 8:29 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 8:29

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide
By way of terror to other kings in the land of Canaan, that should refuse to submit unto him:

and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should
take his carcass down from the tree;
according to the law in ( Deuteronomy 21:23 ) ; and that the land might not be defiled:

and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city;
this was done, according to Ben Gersom and Abarbinel, that it might be publicly known to the rest of the kings of the nations, that they might be afraid to fight with Israel:

and raise thereon a great heap of stones, [that remaineth] unto this
day;
as a sepulchral monument, showing that there was a person lay interred there; whether there was any inscription on the stone, showing who he was, does not appear; it looks as if it was only a rude heap of stones; and such kind of sepulchral monuments were common in former times in other countries.

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Josué 8:29 In-Context

27 Pero los israelitas tomaron para s铆 las bestias y los despojos de la ciudad, conforme a la palabra del SE脩OR que 茅l hab铆a mandado a Josu茅.
28 Y Josu茅 quem贸 a Hai y la redujo a un mont贸n perpetuo, asolado hasta hoy.
29 Mas al rey de Hai lo colg贸 de un madero hasta la tarde; y cuando el sol se puso, mand贸 Josu茅 que quitasen del madero su cuerpo, y lo echasen a la puerta de la ciudad; y levantaron sobre 茅l un gran mont贸n de piedras, hasta hoy.
30 Entonces Josu茅 edific贸 un altar al SE脩OR Dios de Israel en el monte de Ebal,
31 como Mois茅s, siervo del SE脩OR, lo hab铆a mandado a los hijos de Israel, como est谩 escrito en el libro de la ley de Mois茅s; un altar de piedras enteras, sobre las cuales nadie alz贸 hierro; y ofrecieron sobre 茅l holocaustos al SE脩OR, y sacrificaron ofrendas pac铆ficas.
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