THEOSISJoshua 8:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And they took the king of the city of Hai alive and brought him to Joshua.
וְאֶת־מֶ֥לֶךְ הָעַ֖י תָּ֣פְשׂוּ חָ֑י וַיַּקְרִ֥בוּ אֹת֖וֹ אֶל־יְהוֹשֻֽׁעַ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 1 Sam 15:8And he took Agag, the king of Amalec, alive: but all the common people he slew with the edge of the sword.
- Josh 10:17And it was told Joshua, that the five kings were found hid in a cave of the city of Maceda.
- Rev 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone.
- Josh 8:29And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet, until the evening and the going down of the sun. Then Joshua commanded, and they took down his carcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entrance of the city, heaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day.