Joshua 8:28 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁸ And Yehoshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a ruin 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.

Joshua 8:28 Cross References

2 Kings 19:25

‘Have you not heard long ago, I made it; from days of old I formed it? Now I have brought it to be, that you should make walled cities ruinous heaps.

Isaiah 17:1

The message concerning Damascus. “See, Damascus ceases to be a city, and shall become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 25:2

For You shall make a city a heap, a walled city a ruin, a palace of foreigners to be a city no more – never to be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 49:2

“Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall sound a battle cry in Rabbah of the Ammonites. And it shall be a heap, a wasteland, and her villages shall be burned with fire. Then Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 50:26

Come against her from every quarter, open her storehouses, pile her up as heaps of ruins, and put her under the ban. Let her have no remnant.

Jeremiah 9:11

“And I shall make Yerushalayim a heap of ruins, a habitation for jackals; and the cities of Yehuḏ

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Tsiyon is ploughed like a field, and Yerushalayim becomes heaps, and the mountain of the House like a wooded height.

Deuteronomy 13:16

“And gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, before יהוה  your Elohim. And it shall be a heap forever, never to be built again.

Deuteronomy 13:17

“And none of that which is put under the ban is to cling to your hand, so that יהוה  turns from the fierceness of His displeasure and shall show you compassion, love you and increase you, as He swore to your fathers,

Joshua 4:9

Yehoshua also set up twelve stones in the midst of the Yardĕ

Joshua 8:29

And he hanged the sovereign of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Yehoshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, and throw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones, to this day.