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


In Context

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

26 For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.

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

29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, 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 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 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.