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JOSHUA CHAPTER 8
God puts new courage into Joshua; commands him to go and besiege Ai, promising he should take it, Jos_8:1,2. The stratagem whereby it is taken; it is burnt, Jos_8:3-22. The king is taken prisoner; the inhabitants are put to the sword; the cattle and goods spoiled; the king is hanged, Jos_8:23-29. Joshua builds an altar, Jos_8:30; offers thereon, Jos_8:31; writes the law on stones, Jos_8:32. It and its blessings and curses are read before the people, Jos_8:33-35.
Take all the people of war with thee; partly to strengthen them against those fears which their late defeat had wrought in them; and partly that all of them might be partakers of this first spoil, and thereby be encouraged to proceed in their work. The weak multitude were not to go, because they might have hindered them in the following stratagem; and it was but fit that the military men who run the greatest hazards, should have the precedency and privilege in the spoils.