Joshua 8:28

In 11 translations

BSB

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.Ai means ruin.

KJV

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

WEB

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

ASV

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

LSV

And Joshua burns Ai, and makes it a continuous heap—a desolation to this day;

YLT

And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during — a desolation unto this day;

DBY

And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.

DRC

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

GNV

And Ioshua burnt Ai, and made it an heape for euer, and a wildernes vnto this day.

JPS

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

LXXE

And Joshua burnt the city with fire: he made it an uninhabited heap for ever, even to this day.

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WLC

וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ אֶת־הָעָ֑י וַיְשִׂימֶ֤הָ תֵּל־עוֹלָם֙ שְׁמָמָ֔ה עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐνεπύρισεν Ἰησοῦς τὴν πόλιν ἐν πυρί· χῶμα ἀοίκητον εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἔθηκεν αὐτὴν ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.

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• Deuteronomy 13:16And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever,…
• Joshua 4:9Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.
• Isaiah 25:2Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
• 2 Kings 19:25Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
• Jeremiah 50:26Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.
• Micah 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
• Jeremiah 49:2Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out…
• Isaiah 17:1This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
• Jeremiah 9:11“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

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