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."
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 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night

Joshua 8:8
And when 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.


Treasury of Scripture
And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall you take for a prey to yourselves: lay you an ambush for the city behind it.

do to Ai



Joshua 8:24,28,29
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword…



Joshua 6:21
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.



Joshua 10:1,28
Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; …

only the spoil



Joshua 8:2
And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.



Deuteronomy 20:14
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.



Job 27:16,17
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; …

lay thee



Joshua 8:7,9,12,14,19
Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand…



Judges 20:29-33
And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah…



2 Chronicles 13:13
But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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