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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 8:25

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day, etc.] Partly in the city, and partly in the field, both by the ambush and the army: both of men and women; [were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of Ai; so that the city was not a very large one, and the numbers of inhabitants were comparatively but few, as in (<060703>Joshua 7:3).
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