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


In Context

25 Twelve thousand men and women fell that day-all the people of Ai.

26 For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had destroyed all who lived in Ai.

27 But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the Lord had instructed Joshua.

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

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

30 Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord , the God of Israel,

Joshua 8:28 in Other Translations

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 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.