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


In Context

25 And so it was, that all who fell that day, men as well as women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.

26 And Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had stretched out with the javelin, until they had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

27 Only, the cattle and the spoil of the city Israel took as prey to themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which he had commanded Joshua.

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

29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his carcase down from the tree, and threw it down at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised upon it a great heap of stones, which remains to this day.

30 Then Joshua built an altar to 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 American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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