King James Version
Joshua 8:28 in the King James Version says “And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.” — study this verse from Joshua chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.”
Joshua 8:28 · KJV
For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide : and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,
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properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and made”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“for ever”
H5769properly, concealed, i.e., the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e., (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“unto this day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
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