Joshua 8:28

28 So Joshua burned Ai[a] and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day.

Joshua 8:28 in Other Translations

KJV
28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
ESV
28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.
NLT
28 So Joshua burned the town of Ai, and it became a permanent mound of ruins, desolate to this very day.
MSG
28 Joshua burned Ai to the ground. A "heap" of nothing forever, a "no-place" - go see for yourself.
CSB
28 Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, desolate to this day.

Joshua 8:28 In-Context

26 For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had destroyed all who lived in Ai.
27 But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the LORD had instructed Joshua.
28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day.
29 He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.
30 Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel,

Cross References 4

  • 1. S Numbers 31:10
  • 2. Joshua 7:2; Jeremiah 49:3
  • 3. S Deuteronomy 13:16; Joshua 10:1
  • 4. S Genesis 35:20

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. "Ai" means "the ruin" .
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