Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Joshua set Ai on fire and made it a heap forever and a wilderness, even unto this day.
New American Standard Bible
So Joshua burned Ai and made it
King James Version
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
Holman Bible
Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, desolate to 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
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.
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Joshua 8:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Review Of The Fighting
27 Only the cattle and the spoil of the said city, Israel took unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD, which he commanded Joshua. 28 And Joshua set Ai on fire and made it a heap forever and a wilderness, even unto this day. 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on tree, until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded and they took the carcass down off the tree, and cast it in the entering of the gate of the city, and cast thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:16
And gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the streets thereof, and burn with fire: both the city and all the spoil thereof every whit unto the LORD thy God. And it shall be a heap forever and shall not be built again.
Joshua 4:9
And thereto Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood. And there they be, even unto this day.
2 Kings 19:25
But hast thou not heard how I have ordained such a thing a great while ago, and have prepared it from the beginning? And now I bring it forth and it shall be to destroy and to bring strong cities into rude heaps of stones.
Isaiah 17:1
This is the heavy burden upon Damascus: Behold, Damascus shall be no more a city, but a heap of broken stones.
Isaiah 25:2
Thou makest of towns, heaps of stone; and of head
Jeremiah 9:11
I will make Jerusalem also a heap of stones, and a den of venomous worms. And I will make the cities of Judah so waste, that no man shall dwell therein."
Jeremiah 49:2
Behold therefore, the time cometh, sayeth the LORD, that I will bring a noise of war into Rabbah of the Ammonites. And it shall be laid on a desolate heap, and her cities burnt up: and the Israelites shall be lords over those that had them in possession afore, sayeth the LORD.
Jeremiah 50:26
These things shall come upon her at the last: they shall break into her privy chambers, they shall leave her as bare as stones that be laid together upon heaps. They shall so destroy her that nothing shall be left.
Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion, for your sakes, be plowed like a field: Jerusalem shall become a heap of stones, and the hill of the temple shall be turned to a high wood.