American Standard Version
"So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day. "
— Joshua 8:28, American Standard Version
“And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.”
“So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.”
“Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound(it remains that way to this very day).”
“And he burnt the city, and made it a heap forever:”
“So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.”
“And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.”
And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
For Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
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.
So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.
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.
Then Joshua built an altar unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, in mount Ebal,
as Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto Jehovah, and sacrificed peace-offerings.