Passage Research
Joshua 8 — Sermon Preparation
Israel takes Ai by ambush and burns the city, then gathers at Mount Ebal to inscribe the law on stones and read it aloud before the whole assembly. Below is a research summary for Joshua 8, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 35
- verses
- 616 / 192
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Joshua 8 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַי | ʻAy | H5857 | 22 | Ai, Aja |
| עִיר | ʻîyr | H5892 | 28 | city, waking |
| יְהוֹשׁוּעַ | Yᵉhôwshûwaʻ | H3091 | 19 | Jehoshua |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 13 | people, tribe |
| אָרַב | ʼârab | H693 | 7 | lurk |
| נוּס | nûwç | H5127 | 6 | flit, vanish |
| צָוָה | tsâvâh | H6680 | 7 | constitute, enjoin |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Joshua 8, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Observe Joshua's conduct and prudence. Those that would maintain their spiritual conflicts must not love their ease. Probably he went into the valley alone, to pray to God for a blessing, and he did not seek in vain. He never drew back till the work was done. Those that have stretched out their hands against their spiritual enemies, must never draw them back.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Joshua 8:3–22 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Ai 1— Josh 8:1
- Bethel 1— Josh 8:12
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