Joshua Chapter 8 verse 28 Holy Bible
So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.
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So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.
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And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of desolation to this day.
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And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
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And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation to this day.
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So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
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And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during -- a desolation unto this day;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - And Joshua burnt Ai. He continued the work of destruction which the ambush had begun, until the city was entirely destroyed. The word in ver. 19 (שׂרפ) has rather the sense of kindling a fire; the word here (יצת), more the sense of destruction by fire. A heap forever. טֵל־עולָם a heap of eternity; i.e., a heap forever, at least up to the time of our writer. But the Ai mentioned in Ezra 2:28 may have been a city built, not on precisely the same spot, but near enough to it to take its name. And if Ai signifies ruins, and Dean Stanley be right in regarding it as referring to ruins in the days of the Philistines, the name would be particularly suitable to this particular city. Travellers have identified the place with Tel-el. Hajar, immediately to the south of the Wady Mutyah. But see note on ch. 7:2 for Robinson's conclusion, which is confirmed by Canon Tristram, from the belief that Tel-el-Hajar does not answer to the description of Ai in the Scripture narrative. Hanged on a tree. Literally, "on the tree." Perhaps after his death, But see Genesis 40:22; Deuteronomy 21:22. Until eventide. We find here a remarkable coincidence with the precept in Deuteronomy 21:23. The fact that no notice is here taken of that passage is conclusive against its having been inserted with a view to that precept in later times, and this affords a strong presumption against the Elohist and Jehovist theory. Heap. Here גַּל, an expression usually applied to a heap of stones, a cairn, though not always in precisely this sense (see Jeremiah 9:10). CHAPTER 8:30-35. THE COPY OF THE LAW. -
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) An heap for ever.--Heb., Tel-olam; modern name, Et-tel.
