Joshua 8:28

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Summary

Joshua 8:28

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

An heap

Unto this day

Joshua 4:9

Bible References

An heap

Then you shall gather all its booty into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its booty with fire as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God; and it shall be a

ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.

‘Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From ancient times I planned it.

Now I have brought it to pass,

That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

The

oracle concerning Damascus.

“Behold, Damascus is about to be removed from being a city
And will become a fallen ruin.

For You have made a city into a heap,
A fortified city into a ruin;
A palace of strangers is a city no more,
It will never be rebuilt.

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“That I will cause a

trumpet blast of war to be heard

Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon;
And it will become a desolate heap,
And her towns will be set on fire.
Then Israel will take possession of his possessors,”
Says the Lord.

Come to her from the farthest border;

Open up her barns,

Pile her up like heaps
And

utterly destroy her,

Let nothing be left to her.

Therefore, on account of you

Zion will be plowed as a field,

Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,

And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.

Unto this day

Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing, and they are there to this day.