And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders." Cross References Deuteronomy 20:16 However, in the cities of the nations that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you must not leave alive anything that breathes. 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 up an ambush behind the city." Joshua 8:7 you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand. Joshua 8:9 So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people. Joshua 8:22 Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces on both sides. So Israel struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained. Treasury of Scripture And it shall be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall you do. See, I have commanded you. set the city Joshua 8:28 Joshua 6:24 See, I have Joshua 1:9,16 Judges 4:6 2 Samuel 13:28 |