Parallel Verses

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.

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 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
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 took the cattle and the spoil of that city for preys for themselves, according to the word Jehovah commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation until this day. 29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening. As soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they take his carcass down from the tree and throw it at the entering gate of the city. They raised a large pile of rocks over it that is there to this day.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 13:16

Gather all its treasure into the middle of its open square and burn the city and all its treasure with fire as a whole burnt offering to Jehovah your God. It shall be a ruin forever. It shall never be rebuilt.

Joshua 4:9

Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan River, in the place where the feet of the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant stood, and they are there to this day.

2 Kings 19:25

Have you not heard? I did this long ago. I planned it in the past. Now I make it happen so that you will turn fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Isaiah 17:1

Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 25:2

You have made the city a heap, the mighty city a ruin. The palace of aliens is a city no more. It will never be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 9:11

I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins. It will be a gathering place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah desolation, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 49:2

That is why the days are coming,' declares Jehovah, 'when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah, where the people of Ammon live. It will become a pile of rubble. Its villages will be burned down.' 'Then Israel will take possession of its inheritance,' says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 50:26

Attack them from a distance, open their storehouses, pile up their corpses like piles of grain, claim them for me by destroying them, and do not leave anyone behind.

Micah 3:12

It is your fault that Zion will be plowed like a field. Jerusalem will become heaps of ruin, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

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