Joshua 8:28
World English Bible (WEB)
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
In context
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 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.
28 So Joshua burned 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. At 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 the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
Joshua 8:28 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
- KJV King James Version
- And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
- ASV American Standard Version
- So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during — a desolation unto this day;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation to this day.