And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.
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Gill's Exposition
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, Jos 8:2,
and made…
Adam Clarke
Unto this day - This last clause was probably added by a later hand.
We have here an account of the improvement which the Israelites made of their victory over Ai. 1. They put all to the sword, not only in the field, but in the city, man, woman, and child, none of them…
Cambridge Bible
a heap "an everlasting toumbe," Wyclif. Heb. a "Tel," always with the article, The Tel, or Heap. "For a long time modern explorers in vain sought for the site of Ai, where they knew it must have…
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