CHAPTER 8

^[p. 343] CHAPTER 8

But Joshua has to make all the people go up, and a vast deal of trouble is taken before the city is captured. Jehovah will have sin to be felt in its terrible consequences to the entire people, though from one man only.

The people did not see Joshua’s spear as is ordinarily supposed. It was a sign of Jehovah’s to Joshua here, as Moses’ uplifted hands were in Exodus 17.

Verse 26. For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. The people now do get the cattle and the spoil, though Ai is burnt, and made a heap for ever, and its king hanged.