Joshua 8:28

So then Joshua burned Ai,—and made of it an age-abiding heap—a desolation, [as it remaineth] until this day.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

27Nevertheless, the cattle and the spoil of that city, Israel took as their own prey,—according to the word of Yahweh, which he commanded Joshua.

29And, the king of Ai, hanged he on a tree until eventide,—but, at the going in of the sun, Joshua gave command and they took down his dead body from the tree, and cast it in at the opening of the gate of the city, and raised up over it a great heap of stones—[which remaineth] until this day.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:17So shall there not cleave to thy hand aught of the devoted thing,—that Yahweh may turn away, from the glow of his anger and grant thee compassion and have compassion upon thee and multiply thee, as he sware unto thy fathers;

2 Kings 19:25Hast thou not heard—that, long ago, that, is what I appointed, and, from days of old, devised it? Now, have I brought it to pass, that thou mightest serve to lay waste, in desolate ruins, fortified cities;

Isaiah 25:2For thou hast made, of a citadel, a mound, of a defenced city, a ruin,—palaces for foreigners to be no city, To times age-abiding, shall it not be built.

Jeremiah 49:2Therefore, lo! days are coming, Declareth Yahweh When I will cause to be heard against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, an alarm of war, So shall she become a mound of desolation, And, her villages, with fire, shall blaze,—Then shall Israel, inherit them who inherited him, Saith Yahweh.

Micah 3:12Wherefore, for your sake, Zion, as a field, shall be ploughed, and, Jerusalem, unto heaps of ruins, shall be turned,—and, the mountain of the house, shall [be] like mounds in a jungle.

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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