Verse 28
Joshua 8:28
Literal Standard Version
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And Joshua burns Ai, and makes it a continuous heap—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.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 8 Context
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And YHWH says to Joshua, “Do not fear, nor be frightened, take with you all the people of war, and r...
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and you have done to Ai and to her king as you have done to Jericho and to her king; only spoil its...
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And Joshua rises, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooses thirty thousand men,...
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and commands them, saying, “See, you are ones lying in wait against the city, at the rear of the cit...
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and I and all the people who are with me draw near to the city, and it has come to pass, when they c...
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and they have come out after us until we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fle...
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and you rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and your God (Elohim) YHWH has given it in...
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and it has been, when you capture the city, you burn the city with fire, you do according to the wor...
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And Joshua sends them away, and they go to the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the west...
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And Joshua rises early in the morning, and inspects the people, and goes up, he and the elderly of I...
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and all the people of war who are with him have gone up, and draw near and come in before the city,...
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And he takes about five thousand men, and sets them for an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west...
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and they set the people, all the camp which is on the north of the city, and its rear on the west of...
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And it comes to pass, when the king of Ai sees it, that he hurries, and rises early, and the men of...
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And Joshua and all Israel seem struck before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,
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and all the people who are in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua...
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and there has not been a man left in Ai and Bethel who has not gone out after Israel, and they leave...
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And YHWH says to Joshua, “Stretch out with the javelin which is in your hand toward Ai, for I give i...
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and the ambush has risen with haste, out of its place, and they run at the stretching out of his han...
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And the men of Ai look behind them, and see, and behold, the smoke of the city has gone up to the he...
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and Joshua and all Israel have seen that the ambush has captured the city, and that the smoke of the...
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and these have come out from the city to meet them, and they are in the midst of Israel, some on thi...
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and they have caught the king of Ai alive, and bring him near to Joshua.
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And it comes to pass, at Israel’s finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the w...
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and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand—all men of Ai.
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And Joshua has not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin until he has devote...
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only the livestock and the spoil of that city has Israel spoiled for themselves, according to the wo...
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And Joshua burns Ai, and makes it a continuous heap—a desolation to this day;
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and he has hanged the king of Ai on the tree until evening, and at the going in of the sun Joshua ha...
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Then Joshua builds an altar to YHWH, God (Elohim) of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
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as Moses, servant of YHWH, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the Scroll of the Law o...
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and he writes there on the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which he has written in the presence o...
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And all Israel, and its elderly, and authorities, and his judges, are standing on this side and on t...
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And afterward he has proclaimed all the words of the Law, the blessing and the reviling, according t...
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there has not been a thing of all that Moses commanded which Joshua has not proclaimed before all th...
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