Joshua 8:28
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28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a (A)heap of ruins, as it is to this day.
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Deuteronomy 13:16
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16 You shall gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and (A)burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. It shall be a (B)heap forever. It shall not be built again.
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Micah 3:12
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12 Therefore because of you
(A)Zion shall be plowed as a field;
Jerusalem (B)shall become a heap of ruins,
and (C)the mountain of the house (D)a wooded height.
Jeremiah 50:26
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26 Come against her from every quarter;
open her granaries;
(A)pile her up like heaps of grain, and devote her to destruction;
let nothing be left of her.
Jeremiah 49:2
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2 Therefore, behold, the days are coming,
declares the Lord,
when I will cause (A)the battle cry to be heard
against (B)Rabbah of the Ammonites;
it shall become a desolate (C)mound,
and its villages shall be burned with fire;
then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,
says the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:11
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11 (A)I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
(B)a lair of jackals,
(C)and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.”
Isaiah 25:2
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2 For you have made the city (A)a heap,
the fortified city a ruin;
the foreigners' palace is a city no more;
it will never be rebuilt.
Isaiah 17:1
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An Oracle Concerning Damascus
17 An (A)oracle concerning (B)Damascus.
Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city
and will become a heap of ruins.
2 Kings 19:25
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25 “Have you not heard
that (A)I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what (B)now I bring to pass,
that you should turn fortified cities
into heaps of ruins,
Joshua 4:9
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9 And Joshua set up[a] twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, (A)in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.
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- Joshua 4:9 Or Joshua had set up
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