25And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
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But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-29)We have here an account of the improvement which the Israelites made of their victory over Ai. 1. They put all to the sword, not only in the field, but in the city, man, woman, and child, none of them remained, Josh. 8:24. God, the righteous Judge, had passed this sentence upon them for their wickedness, so that the Israelites were only the ministers of his justice and the executioners of his doom…
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