18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, (A)“Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

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18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Hold out toward Ai the javelin(A) that is in your hand,(B) for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand.(C)

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26 But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he (A)stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:26 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)

26 For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin(A) until he had destroyed[a](B) all who lived in Ai.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:26 The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the Lord, often by totally destroying them.