Catholic Public Domain Version
"And he set fire to the city, and he caused it to be a perpetual tomb. "
— Joshua 8:28, Catholic Public Domain 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 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.”
Now there were twelve thousand persons who had fallen on the same day, from man even to woman, the entire city of Ai.
Truly Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had stretched out on high, keeping hold of the shield until all the inhabitants of Ai were put to death.
Then the sons of Israel divided among themselves the cattle and the plunder of the city, just as the Lord had instructed Joshua.
And he set fire to the city, and he caused it to be a perpetual tomb.
Also, he suspended the king on a gallows, until evening and the setting of the sun. And Joshua instructed, and they took down his dead body from the hanging tree. And they cast it at the very entrance of the city, gathering a great pile of stones upon it, which remains even to the present day.
Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
just as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had instructed to the sons of Israel, and this was written in the book of the law of Moses: truly, an altar of uncut stones, which iron has not touched. And he offered holocausts upon it to the Lord, and he immolated victims as peace-offerings.