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26 Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.[a] 27 But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in keeping with the Lord’s orders[b] to Joshua. 28 Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:26 tn Heb “Joshua did not draw back his hand which held out the curved sword until he had annihilated all the residents of Ai.”
  2. Joshua 8:27 tn Heb “message, word.”
  3. Joshua 8:28 tn Heb “and made it a permanent mound, a desolation, to this day.”