Didst thou not hear from remoteness I made it from days before and I formed it? and now I brought it in, and thou wilt be to set fortified cities for desolate ruins.
Joshua 8:28 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876 And Joshua will burn Ai and set it a heap forever, a waste even to this day. 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. |
Didst thou not hear from remoteness I made it from days before and I formed it? and now I brought it in, and thou wilt be to set fortified cities for desolate ruins.
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus being taken away from a city, and it was a falling heap of rubbish.
For thou didst set from a city to a heap, a fortified city to ruins: a palace of strangers from a city; it shall not be built forever.
For this, behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, and I caused to be heard the alarm of war to Rabbah of the sons of Ammon; and it was for a heap of desolation, and her daughters shall be burned with fire; and Israel shall inherit those inheriting him, says Jehovah.
Come ye against her from the extremity; open her store-houses: cast her up as heaps and exterminate her: there shall be no remnant to her.
And I gave Jerusalem for heaps and a dwelling of jackals; and the cities of Judah I will give a desolation from none inhabiting.
For this, on account of you Zion shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins, and the mountain of the house for the heights of the forest.
And thou shalt gather all its spoil to the midst of its street, and burn in fire the city and all its spoil, wholly, to Jehovah thy God: and it was a heap forever; it shall no more be built.
And there shall not cleave upon their hand any thing from that devoted to destruction: so that Jehovah shall turn back from the burning of his anger and give to thee mercy, and compassionate thee, as he sware to thy fathers;
And Joshua raised up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place of the standing of the feet of the priest lifting up the ark of the covenant: and they shall be there till this day.
And the king of Ai he hung upon the tree till the time of evening: and when the sun went down Joshua commanded and they will take down his carcass from the tree and cast it at the opening of the gate of the city, and they will set upon it a great heap of stones till this day.