Judges 20:38 - The Scriptures 2009

³⁸ And the appointed signal between the men of Yisra’ĕl and the ambush was that they would make a great cloud of smoke rise up from the city,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke arise from the city,

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait was, that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

Common English Bible

³⁸ The plan between the main force of the Israelites and those in the ambush was that when they sent up a big cloud of smoke from the city,

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ Now the sons of Israel had given a sign to those whom they had stationed in ambushes, so that, after they had seized the city, they would light a fire, and by the smoke ascending on high, they would show that the city was captured.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁸ Now the children of Israel had given a sign to them, whom they had laid in ambushes, that after they had taken the city, they should make a fire: that by the smoke rising on high, they might shew that the city was taken.

Judges 20:38 Cross References

Genesis 17:21

“But My covenant I establish with Yitsḥaq, whom Sarah is to bear to you at this appointed time next year.”

2 Kings 4:16

And he said, “About this appointed time next year you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my master, man of Elohim, do not lie to your female servant!”

Joshua 8:13

So they stationed the people, all the army that was on the north of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, and Yehoshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

Joshua 8:20

And the men of Ai looked behind them and saw the smoke of the city rising to the heavens. And there was no power in them to flee this way or that way, for the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.