Joshua 8:28

The Passion Translation

Then Joshua burned Ai to the ground and reduced it to a mound of ruins for all time. It remains desolate to this day.

Cross References

Isaiah 17:1

This is God’s message for Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is gone! It is no longer a city, only a heap of rubble.

Isaiah 25:2

The city that was once mighty you’ve turned into a heap of rubble; the fortified city now lies in ruins. The foreigner’s fortress is no more and will never be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 49:2

Therefore, I say to you, The days are coming when I will cause the Ammonites of Rabbah to hear the battle cries of their attackers. I will turn her into a heap of ruins and her surrounding villages will be set on fire. Then Israel will drive out those who drove her out. I, Yahweh, affirm it!

Jeremiah 50:26

Attack it from every side! Open her granaries. Pile her up like heaps of grain; curse her with destruction until nothing is left of her.

Jeremiah 9:11

“I, Yahweh, will turn Jerusalem into rubble, a den of jackals. And I will turn the cities of Judah into ghost towns where no one lives.”

Joshua 4:9

Joshua set up the memorial stones that they had taken from the exact spot where the priests stood bearing the ark in the riverbed. They remain there to this day.

Joshua 8:29

And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until sunset. Then at sunset, Joshua had the corpse taken down and left it lying in front of where the city gates once stood. They raised a large pile of stones over his corpse, where it remains to this day.