Verse List for JOS 8:28

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OET (OET-RV) then Yehoshua burnt the city and made it a permanent pile of rubble where no one lives to this day.

OET-LV And_ Yəhōshūˊa _he _burnt DOM (the)_ˊAy and_he_made _it a _mound _of perpetuity a _desolation until the_day (the)_this.

ULT And Joshua burned Ai, and he made it a mound forever, a desolation to this day.

UST Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai and caused it to become a pile of ruins that no one ever rebuilt. It is still an abandoned place now.

BSB & MSB So Joshua burned Ai[fn] and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

OEB Ai itself Joshua burned, and made it a heap of ruins. To this day it lies desolate.

WEBBE & WMBB So Joshua burnt Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

NET Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

LSV And Joshua burns Ai, and makes it a continuous heap—a desolation to this day;

FBV So Joshua burned the town of Ai, making it permanently into a heap of ruins where no one lives to this very day.

T4T Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai city and caused it to become a pile of ruins. It is still like that today.

LEB So Joshua burned Ai and made it an everlasting heap of rubbish, a desolate place until this day.

BBE So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.

Moff 14-29 In the morning the townsmen rose and marched out to fight Israel. They beat Joshua and all Israel, who fled in the direction of the desert; 16 all the townsmen of Ai were called out to pursue them, and in their pursuit of Joshua they left the town unguarded. Then said the Eternal to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin in your hand towards Ai, for I put Ai in your power.” And as soon as Joshua stretched out the javelin 19 towards the town, the men in ambush rushed into the town and captured it, while the Israelites who were flying towards the desert turned upon their pursuers, seeing that the men in ambush had captured the town. When the Israelites and Joshua had finished slaughtering the townsmen of Ai who had run into the desert and when they had cut them down, giving no quarter, all Israel then returned to Ai and sacked it. All the folk of Ai fell that day, both men and women, twelve thousand in all; Joshua never withdrew the hand that held his javelin until he had massacred all the folk of Ai. Only the Israelites took the spoils and cattle of the town for themselves, as the Eternal had given orders to Joshua. Ai itself Joshua burned, and made it a heap of ruins; to this day it lies desolate. When the king of Ai saw this, he and his men made an early start; not knowing that an ambush had been laid behind the town they allowed themselves to be drawn away from the town, till not a man was left in Ai who did not go out after Israel. The men in ambush then came out quickly and hurried to set the town on fire, so that when the men of Ai turned round to look, there was smoke rising from the town! They had no chance to flee this way or that, for the pursued turned upon the pursuers when they saw the smoke rising from the town, and the men in ambush rushed from the town to join them, so that the men of Ai were caught between Israelites, some on one side and some on the other; they were slaughtered till not a soul escaped or remained alive. The king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua, who hung him on a tree till evening; at sunset Joshua ordered his body to be taken down from the tree and thrown down at the entrance to the town-gate. They raised a cairn of stones over it, which is there to this day.

JPS So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

ASV So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

DRA And he burned the city, and made it a heap for ever:

YLT And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during — a desolation unto this day;

Drby And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.

RV So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.
(So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap forever, even a desolation, unto this day.)

SLT And Joshua will burn Ai and set it a heap forever, a waste even to this day.

Wbstr And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation to this day.

KJB-1769 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
(And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap forever, even a desolation unto this day.)

KJB-1611 And Ioshua burnt Ai, and made it an heape for euer, euen a desolation vnto this day.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps And Iosuah set Ai on fire, and made it an heape for euer, & a wildernesse, euen vnto this day.
(And Yoshua set Ai on fire, and made it an heap forever, and a wilderness, even unto this day.)

Gnva And Ioshua burnt Ai, and made it an heape for euer, and a wildernes vnto this day.
(And Yoshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap forever, and a wilderness unto this day.)

Cvdl And Iosua burned vp Hai and made an heape therof for euer, which is there yet vnto this daye.
(And Yoshua burnt up Hai and made an heap thereof forever, which is there yet unto this day.)

Wycl which brente the citee, and made it an euerlastynge biriel.
(which burnt the city, and made it an everlasting burial.)

Luth Und Josua brannte Ai aus und machte einen Haufen daraus ewiglich, der noch heute da liegt.
(And Yosua burnt Ai out_of and made/did a heap/pile(n) from_it forever, the/of_the still today there lies(v).)

ClVg Qui succendit urbem, et fecit eam tumulum sempiternum:
(Who it_burns city, and he_did her then/secondlyulum eternal:)

UHB וַ⁠יִּשְׂרֹ֥ף יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ אֶת־הָ⁠עָ֑י וַ⁠יְשִׂימֶ֤⁠הָ תֵּל־עוֹלָם֙ שְׁמָמָ֔ה עַ֖ד הַ⁠יּ֥וֹם הַ⁠זֶּֽה׃ ‡

BrLXX Καὶ ἐνεπύρισεν Ἰησοῦς τὴν πόλιν ἐν πυρί· χῶμα ἀοίκητον εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἔθηκεν αὐτὴν ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.

BrTr And Joshua burnt the city with fire: he made it an uninhabited heap for ever, even to this day.