Ai Body Carcase Carcass Cast Command Commanded Covering Death Entering Entrance Evening Eventide Even-time Gate Hanged Hanging Heap Joshua Large Mass Opening Ordered Orders Pile Public Raise Raised Remains Rocks Stands Stones Sundown Sunset Thereon Threw Throw Till Town Tree
8:29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded {m} that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, [that remaineth] unto this day.
(m) According as it was commanded, De 21:23.
8:29 Hanged on a tree - He dealt more severely with the kings of Canaan than with the people, because the abominable wickedness of that people was not restrained and punished (as it should have been) but countenanced and encouraged by their evil examples; and because they were the principal authors of the destruction of their own people, by engaging them in an obstinate opposition against the Israelites. Down from the tree - According to God's command in that case, Deut 21:22. The gate of the city - Which place he chose either as most commodious, now especially when all the city within the gate was already turned in to an heap of stones and rubbish; or because this was the usual place of judgment; and therefore proper to bear the monument of God's just sentence against him, not without reflection upon that injustice which he had been guilty of in that place.
8:23-29 God, the righteous Judge, had sentenced the Canaanites for their wickedness; the Israelites only executed his doom. None of their conduct can be drawn into an example for others. Especial reason no doubt there was for this severity to the king of Ai; it is likely he had been notoriously wicked and vile, and a blasphemer of the God of Israel.
Ai Body Carcass Cast City Commanded Entering Entrance Evening Eventide Hanged Heap Joshua Raise Raised Soon Stones Sun Sundown Threw Tree
Ai Body Carcass Cast City Commanded Entering Entrance Evening Eventide Hanged Heap Joshua Raise Raised Soon Stones Sun Sundown Threw Tree
