Joshua 8:28

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

And Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day.

Latin

Qui succendit urbem, et fecit eam tumulum sempiternum:

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Joshua 8:28

Before its destruction, the town of Ai had a different name that is now unknown. The writer of the book of Joshua always called the town Ai, which means “ruin.” This name reflects what the town became after it was destroyed.

Theme notes and profiles

Joshua

Events

War with Canaanites

Related verses

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.
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.
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.
Isaiah 17:1
This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.

People

Joshua: Moses' assistant who led Israel into Canaan

Places

Ai: A Canaanite city conquered by Joshua after initial defeat

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Ai Conquest and Allotment of the Land Joshua, Book of Judah, Tribe of Judges, Book of Tell Tribe of Dan

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Religious Zeal: Joshua

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