Joshua 8:2
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city."
Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:14
But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city--all its spoil--you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

Joshua 8:3
So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 valiant warriors and sent them out at night

Joshua 8:8
After you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders."

Joshua 8:27
Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.

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do to Ai

Joshua 8:24, 28, 29
When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword. . . .

Joshua 6:21
At the edge of the sword they utterly destroyed everything in the city--man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.

Joshua 10:1, 28
Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and completely destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them. . . .

Deuteronomy 3:2
But the LORD said to me, "Do not fear him, for I have handed him over to you along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon."

only the spoil

Joshua 8:2
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city."

Deuteronomy 20:14
But the women, children, livestock, and whatever else is in the city--all its spoil--you may take as plunder, and you shall use the spoil of your enemies that the LORD your God gives you.

Job 27:16, 17
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, . . .

Psalm 39:6
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is passed to the righteous.

Proverbs 28:20
A faithful man will abound with blessings, but one eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

Jeremiah 17:11
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.

Luke 12:20, 21
But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?' . . .

lay thee

Joshua 8:7, 9, 12, 14, 19
you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hands. . . .

Judges 20:29-33
So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah. . . .

2 Chronicles 13:13
Now Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to advance from the rear, so that while he was in front of Judah, the ambush was behind them.

2 Chronicles 20:22
The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set an ambush against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who had come against Judah, and they were defeated.

Jeremiah 51:12
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.

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