约书亚记 8:28

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

約書亞燒了艾城，使城永遠成為廢堆，一片荒涼，直到今日。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
约 书 亚 将 艾 城 焚 烧 ， 使 城 永 为 高 堆 、 荒 场 ， 直 到 今 日 ；

Contextual Overview

²³ the king of Ai, and they brought him to Joshua. ²⁴ During the fighting the army of Israel chased the men of Ai into the fields and desert and killed all of them. Then they went back to Ai and killed everyone there. ²⁵ All the people of Ai died that day, twelve thousand men and women. ²⁶ Joshua had held his spear toward Ai, as a sign to destroy the city, and did not draw it back until all the people of Ai were destroyed. ²⁷ The people of Israel kept for themselves the animals and the other things the people of Ai had owned, as the Lord had commanded Joshua to do. ²⁸ Then Joshua burned the city of Ai and made it a pile of ruins. And it is still like that today. ²⁹ Joshua hanged the king of Ai on a tree and left him there until evening. At sunset Joshua told his men to take the king's body down from the tree and to throw it down at the city gate. Then they covered it with a pile of rocks, which is still there today.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an heap: Deuteronomy 13:16, 2 Kings 19:25, Isaiah 17:1, Isaiah 25:2, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 49:2, Jeremiah 50:26, Micah 3:12

unto this day: Joshua 4:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 6:24 - burnt Joshua 8:2 - do to Ai Joshua 8:8 - set the city

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua burnt Ai,.... The whole city, fire being only set before to a few houses, to make a smoke as a signal; he did with it as he had done with Jericho, for so he was ordered, Joshua 8:2;

and made it an heap for ever; that is, for a long time, for it appears to have been rebuilt, and to have been inhabited by the Jews, after their return from their Babylonish captivity, Nehemiah 11:31;

[even] a desolation unto this day; to the time of the writing of this book; and by what has been just observed, it appears that Ezra could not be the writer of it, since this city was inhabited in his time.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. Unto this day. — This last clause was probably added by a later hand.