For ever, or, for a long time, as that word oft signifies, as Genesis 6:3 Isaiah 42:14; for that it was after some ages rebuilt, may seem from Nehemiah 11:31, unless that were another city built near the former, there being some little difference in the name also.
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Joshua 8:28
28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.