Joshua 8:28

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

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

27Beside the spoils that were in the city, all things which the children of Israel took as spoil for themselves according to the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Joshua.

29And he hanged the king of Gai on a + 8:29 Gr. double tree. gallows; and he remained on the tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into + 8:29 Gr. the pit or trench. For vv. 30-35, see chap. 8:2. a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones until this day.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:17And there shall nothing of the cursed thing cleave to your hand, that the Lord may turn from his fierce anger, and + 13:17 Heb. give. show you mercy, and pity you, and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers;

2 Kings 19:25I have brought about the matter, I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the + 19:25 Gr. captivities. destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, even of strong cities.

Isaiah 25:2For you have made cities a heap, even cities made strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built for ever.

Jeremiah 49:2to Jeremias the prophet, and said to him, Let now our supplication come before your face, and pray you to the Lord your God for this remnant; for we are left few out of many, as your eyes see.

Micah 3:12Therefore on your account Sion 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 →

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