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Joshua 8:28

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ףvai.yis.Rofand he burnedH8313 →
יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַye.ho.Shu.a'JoshuaH3091 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הָעָ֑יha.'Ai<the> AiH5857 →
וַיְשִׂימֶ֤הָvay.si.Me.haand he made itH7760 →
תֵּל־tel-a mound ofH8510 →
עוֹלָם֙o.LamperpetuityH5769 →
שְׁמָמָ֔הshe.ma.Maha desolationH8077 →
עַ֖ד'aduntilH5704 →
הַיּ֥וֹםhai.Yomthe dayH3117 →
הַזֶּֽה׃ha.Zeh<the> thisH2088 →

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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.Joshua 6:24Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.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.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.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.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.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.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.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 49:3Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.Joshua 8:8And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”

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Joshua Burns the Town of Ai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Joshua Burns the Town of Ai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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