Joshua 8:28 “So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolatio…”

Joshua 8:28

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

World English Bible

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

American Standard Version

So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Ioshua burnt Ai, and made it an heape for euer, and a wildernes vnto this day.

Darby Translation

And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.

Young's Literal Translation

And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during — a desolation unto this day;

Bible in Basic English

So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.

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Cross references

“an heap”

Deuteronomy 13:16 2 Kings 19:25 Isaiah 17:1 Isaiah 25:2 Jeremiah 9:11 Jeremiah 49:2

Deuteronomy 13:16 · BSB

And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, ne…

2 Kings 19:25 · BSB

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Isaiah 17:1 · BSB

This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 25:2 · BSB

Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 9:11 · BSB

“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 49:2 · BSB

Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out the…

“unto this day”

Joshua 4:9

Joshua 4:9 · BSB

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.

29He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.

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