Verse 28
Joshua 8:28
King James Version
28
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever,
even a desolation unto 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
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with t...
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And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof...
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3
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousan...
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4
And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city,
even behind the city:...
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5
And I, and all the people that
are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass,...
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6
(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They fle...
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7
Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God (Elohim) will...
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8
And it shall be, when ye have taken the city,
that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the c...
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9
Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, o...
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10
And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of...
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11
And all the people,
even the people of war that
were
with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came bef...
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12
And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the wes...
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13
And when they had set the people,
even all the host that
was on the north of the city, and their lie...
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14
And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw
it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of...
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15
And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilder...
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16
And all the people that
were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after...
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17
And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city...
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18
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that
is
in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give...
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19
And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his ha...
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20
And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up...
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21
And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the cit...
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22
And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this...
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23
And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
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24
And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field,...
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25
And
so it was,
that all that fell that day, both of men and women,
were twelve thousand,
even all th...
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26
For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destro...
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27
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto th...
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28
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever,
even a desolation unto this day.
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And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua comma...
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30
Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God (Elohim) of Israel in mount Ebal,
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31
As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of t...
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32
And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the...
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33
And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on...
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34
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is...
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There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation...
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