Joshua 8:28
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
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Deuteronomy 13:16
And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

2 Kings 19:25
Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Isaiah 17:1
This is an oracle concerning Damascus: "Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

Isaiah 25:2
Indeed, You have turned the city into a heap of rubble, a fortified town into ruins; the fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 9:11
"And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant."

Jeremiah 49:2
Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 50:26
Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Completely destroy her; leave her no survivors.

Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

unto this day

Joshua 4:9
Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing. And the stones are there to this day.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation until this day.

King James Bible
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, desolate to this day.

International Standard Version
Joshua burned Ai, turning it into a permanent mound of ruins, and it remains so to this day.

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