Joshua 8:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁸ Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, still desolate today.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap of ruins for ever, even a desolation to this day.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

Common English Bible

²⁸ Then Joshua burned Ai. He made it a permanently deserted mound. That is still the case today.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And he set fire to the city, and he caused it to be a perpetual tomb.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ And he burned the city, and made it a heap for ever.

Joshua 8:28 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 19:25

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.

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.

Jeremiah 50:26

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.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a jackals’ den. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, an uninhabited place.

Micah 3:12

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.

Deuteronomy 13:16

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.

Deuteronomy 13:17

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 4:9

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.

Joshua 8:29

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.