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

Joshua 8:28 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીયહોશુઆ ૮:૨૮
અને યહોશુઆએ આયને બાળી નાખીને તેનો સદાને માટે વિનાશનો ઢગ કરી દીધો. તે સ્થાન આજ દિવસ સુધી વેરાન રહેલું છે.
हिन्दीयहोशू ८:२८
तब यहोशू ने आई को फुँकवा दिया, और उसे सदा के लिये खण्डहर कर दिया: वह आज तक उजाड़ पड़ा है।

In context

26For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

27Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.

28So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

29He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

30Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

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