Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, desolate to this day.

New American Standard Bible

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation until this day.

King James Version

And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

International Standard Version

Joshua burned Ai, turning it into a permanent mound of ruins, and it remains so to this day.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

Amplified

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a rubbish heap forever, a desolation until this day.

Bible in Basic English

So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.

Darby Translation

And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.

Julia Smith Translation

And Joshua will burn Ai and set it a heap forever, a waste even to this day.

King James 2000

And Joshua burned Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation unto this day.

Lexham Expanded Bible

So Joshua burned Ai and made it an everlasting heap of rubbish, a desolate place until this day.

Modern King James verseion

And Joshua burned Ai, and made it a heap forever, a ruin to this day.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And Joshua set Ai on fire and made it a heap forever and a wilderness, even unto this day.

NET Bible

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

So then Joshua burned Ai, - and made of it an age-abiding heap - a desolation, as it remaineth until this day.

Webster

And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation to this day.

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during -- a desolation unto this day;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And Joshua
יהושׁע יהושׁוּע 
Y@howshuwa` 
Usage: 218

שׂרף 
Saraph 
Usage: 117

Ai
עיּת עיּא עי 
`Ay 
Usage: 40

and made
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

it an heap
תּל 
Tel 
Usage: 5

עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

שׁממה שׁממה 
Sh@mamah 
Usage: 57

References

American

Ai

Easton

Hastings

Morish

Ai

Context Readings

A Review Of The Fighting

27 Israel plundered only the cattle and spoil of that city for themselves, according to the Lord’s command that He had given Joshua. 28 Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, desolate to this day. 29 He hung the body of the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:16

You are to gather all its spoil in the middle of the city square and completely burn up the city and all its spoil for the Lord your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever; it is not to be rebuilt.

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also set up 12 stones in the middle of the Jordan where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing. The stones are there to this day.

2 Kings 19:25

Have you not heard?
I designed it long ago;
I planned it in days gone by.
I have now brought it to pass,
and you have crushed fortified cities
into piles of rubble.

Isaiah 17:1

An oracle against Damascus:

Look, Damascus is no longer a city.
It has become a ruined heap.

Isaiah 25:2

For You have turned the city into a pile of rocks,
a fortified city, into ruins;
the fortress of barbarians is no longer a city;
it will never be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble,
a jackals’ den.
I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
an uninhabited place.

Jeremiah 49:2

Therefore look, the days are coming—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when I will make the shout of battle heard
against Rabbah of the Ammonites.
It will become a desolate mound,
and its villages will be burned down.
Israel will dispossess their dispossessors,
says the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:26

Come against her from the most distant places.
Open her granaries;
pile her up like mounds of grain
and completely destroy her.
Leave her no survivors.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you,
Zion will be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem will become ruins,
and the hill of the temple mount
will be a thicket.

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