Joshua 8:28 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁸ So Joshua burned Ai, and made it for ever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap of ruins for ever, even a desolation to this day.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

Common English Bible

²⁸ Then Joshua burned Ai. He made it a permanently deserted mound. That is still the case today.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And he set fire to the city, and he caused it to be a perpetual tomb.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ And he burned the city, and made it a heap for ever.

Joshua 8:28 Cross References

2 Kings 19:25

‘Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,

Isaiah 17:1

An oracle concerning Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 25:2

For thou hast made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens is a city no more, it will never be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 49:2

Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause the battle cry to be heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites; it shall become a desolate mound, and its villages shall be burned with fire; then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:26

Come against her from every quarter; open her granaries; pile her up like heaps of grain, and destroy her utterly; let nothing be left of her.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.

Deuteronomy 13:16

You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square, and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; it shall be a heap for ever, it shall not be built again.

Deuteronomy 13:17

None of the devoted things shall cleave to your hand; that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,

Joshua 4:9

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.

Joshua 8:29

And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.