World English Bible
Joshua 8:28
“So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.”
Verse in context — Joshua 8
For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.
So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
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Israel conquers and settles the Promised Land under Joshua’s leadership.
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