28So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.


In Context

25 And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

26 For Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey unto themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he commanded Joshua.

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

29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.

30 Then Joshua built an altar unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, in mount Ebal,

Joshua 8:28 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:28So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:28And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, [even] a desolation unto this day.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:28And he burned the city, and made it a heap for ever:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:28And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:28So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:28And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation to this day.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:28So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:28And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during — a desolation unto this day;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:28And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation to this day.