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Joshua 8:28

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26 Joshua did not draw back the hand that held his battle lance until he had devoted to destruction all who lived in Ai.

27 Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.

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

29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.

30 At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,

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BSB
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
KJV
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
WEB
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
ASV
So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.
DARBY
And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.
BLB
And Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day.
ÅB
Og Josva brant opp Ai og gjorde den til en grushaug for alle tider, til et øde sted, som den har vært til denne dag.
OTB
Så brente Josva Ai og gjorde det til en ruinhaug, et øde sted til denne dag.
B1930
Og Josva brente op Ai og gjorde den til en grushaug for alle tider, til et øde sted, som den har vært til denne dag.

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  • Deuteronomy 13:16

    And 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.

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  • Jeremiah 49:2

    Therefore, 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.

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  • Isaiah 17:1

    This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

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  • Jeremiah 50:26

    Come 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.

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  • Joshua 4:9

    Joshua 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.

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  • Micah 3:12

    Therefore, 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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  • 2 Kings 19:25

    Have 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.

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  • Isaiah 25:2

    Indeed, 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.

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