Verse 28

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

Referenced Verses

• Deut 13:16 : 16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its street, and shall burn with fire the city, and all its spoil every whit, to Yahweh your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
• Josh 4:9 : 9 Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
• 2 Kgs 19:25 : 25 Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
• Isa 17:1 : 1 The burden of Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
• Isa 25:2 : 2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
• Jer 9:11 : 11 I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
• Jer 49:2 : 2 Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did possess him, says Yahweh.
• Jer 50:26 : 26 Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.
• Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.