Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble.
Joshua 8:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, still desolate today. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap of ruins for ever, even a desolation to this day. American Standard Version (1901) So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day. Common English Bible Then Joshua burned Ai. He made it a permanently deserted mound. That is still the case today. Catholic Public Domain Version And he set fire to the city, and he caused it to be a perpetual tomb. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he burned the city, and made it a heap for ever. |
Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble.
A pronouncement concerning Damascus: Look, Damascus is no longer a city. It has become a ruined heap.
For you have turned the city into a pile of rocks, a fortified city into ruins; the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt.
Therefore look, the days are coming – this is the Lord’s declaration – when I will make the shout of battle heard against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a desolate mound, and its surrounding villages will be set on fire. Israel will dispossess their dispossessors, says the Lord.
Come against her from the most distant places. Open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain and completely destroy her. Leave her no survivors.
I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be ploughed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple’s mountain will be a high thicket.
You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn the city and all its spoil for the Lord your God. The city is to remain a mound of ruins for ever; it is not to be rebuilt.
Nothing set apart for destruction is to remain in your hand, so that the Lord will turn from his burning anger and grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as he swore to your ancestors.
Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing. The stones are still there today.
He hung the body of the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which still remains today.