Joshua 8:28

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

2 Kings 19:25

“Have you not heard? Long ago I arranged it, in ancient times I formed it; now I bring it to pass, that you will turn impregnable cities into desolate heaps of stones.

Isaiah 17:1

The oracle of Damascus. Behold, Damascus will cease from being a city; it shall be a ruinous heap.

Isaiah 25:2

For You have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin; a palace of strangers is a city no longer; it shall never be built.

Jeremiah 49:2

Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it will be a desolate heap, and her towns will be burned with fire. Then Israel will be heir to those who were his heirs, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:26

Come against her from the utmost border, open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins and a den of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will be mounds of ruins, and the mountain of the house will become wooded heights.

Deuteronomy 13:16

You must gather all the spoils of it into the middle of the street and burn the city with fire along with all the spoils within it for the Lord your God, and it will be a heap forever. It must not be rebuilt.

Deuteronomy 13:17

Nothing of the cursed thing there must cling to your hand, so that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of His anger and show you mercy, have compassion on you, and multiply you, just as He swore to your fathers,

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also set twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing. The stones are there to this day.

Joshua 8:29

The king of Ai hanged on a tree until evening. At sunset, Joshua commanded that the people take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the city gate. They erected a large heap of stones over it that remains to this day.