Joshua 8:28 - Tree of Life Version

²⁸ So Joshua burnt Ai and made it a permanent heap of desolation 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? I did it long ago! From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass— that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of rubble.

Isaiah 17:1

The burden of Damascus: Behold, Damascus will cease as a city and will become a ruinous heap.

Isaiah 25:2

For You have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a foreigner’s palace a city no more— never to be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 49:2

Therefore behold, days are coming” —it is a declaration of Adonai— “when I will sound an alarm of war heard against Rabbah of Ammon! It will become a mound of ruins. Her villages will be burned with fire. Then Israel will dispossess those who dispossessed him.” it is a declaration of Adonai.

Jeremiah 50:26

Come against her from afar, open her granaries, pile her up like heaps and utterly destroy her! Let nothing be left to her.

Jeremiah 9:11

Who is the one wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Adonai spoken that he may explain it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?”

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you Zion will become a plowed field. Yes, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount will become a high place in a forest.

Deuteronomy 13:16

you will surely strike down the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its livestock with the sword.

Deuteronomy 13:17

You are to gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and you are to burn with fire the city and all its plunder—all of it to Adonai your God. It will be a ruin forever—it shall never be built again.

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, at the spot where the feet of the kohanim carrying the ark of the covenant were standing—they are there to this day.

Joshua 8:29

Then he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. At sunset Joshua commanded that they take his carcass down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and piled over it a great heap of stones, which remains to this day.