16 And all its spoil you should collect into the middle of its public square, and you must burn in the fire the city+ and all its spoil as a whole offering to Jehovah your God, and it must become a heap of ruins to time indefinite.+ It should never be rebuilt.

11 At this I said: “How long, O Jehovah?”*+ Then he said: “Until the cities actually crash in ruins, to be without an inhabitant, and the houses be without earthling man, and the ground itself is ruined into a desolation;+