Joshua 8:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.”
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“So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.”
King James Version · Public Domain“So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during--a desolation unto this day;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Joshua 8:28 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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, never to be rebuilt.
- Deuteronomy 13:17Nothing devoted to destruction shall cling to your hands, so that the LORD will turn from His fierce anger, grant you mercy, show you compassion, and multiply you as He swore to your fathers,
- 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.
- 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.
- Isaiah 17:1This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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 their dispossessors, says the LORD.
- 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.
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