And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, for YY thy Elohim: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.
Therefore shall TZiyon for your sake be plowed as a field, and Yerushalayim shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith YY , that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Yisrael be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith YY .
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
And Y'howshu`a set up twelve stones in the midst of Yarden, in the place where the feet of the kohanim which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Y'howshu`a Commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that YY may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;