Deuteronomy 13:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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 the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And you shall collect all its spoil into the midst of its open square and shall burn the city with fire with every bit of its spoil [as a whole burnt offering] to the Lord your God. It shall be a heap [of ruins] forever; it shall not be built again.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ 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, unto Jehovah thy God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Gather all the plunder into the middle of the town’s square. Then burn the city and all of its plunder as an entirely burned offering to the LORD your God. It must remain a heap of rubble forever. It must not be rebuilt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Then all the household goods which are there, you shall gather together in the midst of its streets, and you shall set fire to these, along with the city itself, so that you may consume everything for the Lord your God, and so that it may be an everlasting tomb. It shall no longer be built up.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And all the household goods that are there, thou shalt gather together in the midst of the streets thereof, and shalt burn them with the city itself, so as to consume all for the Lord thy God, and that it be a heap for ever. It shall be built no more.

Deuteronomy 13:16 Tagairtí Cros

Exodus 22:19

‘Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal  must be put to death.

Isaiah 17:1

A pronouncement  concerning Damascus: Look, Damascus is no longer a city. It has become a ruined heap.

Isaiah 25:2

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.

Jeremiah 49:2

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.

Ezekiel 26:14

I will turn you into a bare rock, and you will be a place to spread nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the Lord, have spoken.’  This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Micah 1:6

Therefore, I will make Samaria a heap of ruins  in the countryside, a planting area  for a vineyard. I will roll her stones  into the valley and expose her foundations.

Deuteronomy 7:25

Burn the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:26

Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to abhor and detest it utterly because it is set apart for destruction.

Joshua 6:21

They completely destroyed  everything in the city with the sword #– #every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.

Joshua 6:24

They burned the city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house.

Joshua 6:26

At that time Joshua imposed this curse: The man who undertakes the rebuilding of this city, Jericho, is cursed before the  Lord. He will lay its foundation at the cost of his firstborn; he will finish its gates at the cost of his youngest.

Joshua 8:28

Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, still desolate today.