Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during -- a desolation 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.
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.
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 that city have Israel spoiled for themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which He commanded Joshua. 28 And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during -- a desolation unto this day; 29 and the king of Ai he hath hanged on the tree till even-time, and at the going in of the sun hath Joshua commanded, and they take down his carcase from the tree, and cast it unto the opening of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones till this day.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:16
and all its spoil thou dost gather unto the midst of its broad place, and hast burned with fire the city and all its spoil completely, before Jehovah thy God, and it hath been a heap age-during, it is not built any more;
Joshua 4:9
even the twelve stones hath Joshua raised up out of the midst of the Jordan, the place of the standing of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant, and they are there unto this day.
2 Kings 19:25
Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps are fenced cities,
Isaiah 17:1
The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from being a city, And it hath been a heap -- a ruin.
Isaiah 25:2
For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from being a city, To the age it is not built.
Jeremiah 9:11
And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 49:2
Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sounded unto Rabbah of the sons of Ammon a shout of battle, And it hath been for a heap -- a desolation, And her daughters with fire are burnt, And Israel hath succeeded its heirs, Said hath Jehovah.
Jeremiah 50:26
Come ye in to her from the extremity, Open ye her storehouses, Raise her up as heaps, and devote her, Let her have no remnant.
Micah 3:12
Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house is for high places of a forest!