Verse 28

Joshua 8:28

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

Original Language Text

hebrew

וַ/יִּשְׂרֹ֥ף יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ אֶת הָ/עָ֑י וַ/יְשִׂימֶ֤/הָ תֵּל עוֹלָם֙ שְׁמָמָ֔ה עַ֖ד הַ/יּ֥וֹם הַ/זֶּֽה

English Translation

And Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins until this day.

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Chapter 8 Context

1 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and... Focus ↗

2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods... Focus ↗

3 So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty... Focus ↗

4 He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t... Focus ↗

5 I and all the people who are with me will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out... Focus ↗

6 They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They f... Focus ↗

7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God (Elohim)... Focus ↗

8 It shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this a... Focus ↗

9 Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the w... Focus ↗

10 Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel,... Focus ↗

11 All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and came near, and came before the c... Focus ↗

12 He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of t... Focus ↗

13 So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the... Focus ↗

14 When the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against... Focus ↗

15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness... Focus ↗

16 All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua,... Focus ↗

17 There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, a... Focus ↗

18 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it i... Focus ↗

19 The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand,... Focus ↗

20 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to he... Focus ↗

21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city as... Focus ↗

22 The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this sid... Focus ↗

23 They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua. Focus ↗

24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which... Focus ↗

25 All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. Focus ↗

26 For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly... Focus ↗

27 Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word... Focus ↗

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

29 He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took... Focus ↗

30 Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God (Elohim) of Israel, on Mount Ebal, Focus ↗

31 as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the... Focus ↗

32 He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of... Focus ↗

33 All Israel, their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the p... Focus ↗

34 Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is wri... Focus ↗

35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly o... Focus ↗

Verse Information

Book: Joshua
Chapter: Chapter 8 (35 verses)
Version: World English Bible

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