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He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
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Verse 29. Gibbet. Septuagint “a cross.” Some say that the king was first killed; but that assertion is destitute of proof. The corpse was taken down before night. Deuteronomy 21:22.
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