Joshua 8:28
And Joshua burned the city with fire: he made it an uninhabited heap forever, even to this day.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:17And all its spoils thou shalt gather into its public ways, and thou shalt burn the city with fire, and all its spoils publicly before the Lord thy God; and it shall be uninhabited forever, it shall not be built again.
2 Kings 19:25I have brought about the matter, I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, even of strong cities.
Isaiah 25:2For thou hast made cities a heap, even cities made strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built forever.
Jeremiah 49:2to Jeremiah the prophet, and said to him, Let now our supplication come before thy face, and pray thou to the Lord thy God for this remnant; for we are left few out of many, as thine eyes see.
Micah 3:12Therefore on your account Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 8:24-30
23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. 25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. 26 For Joshua drew not… Read the whole commentary →