Judges 20:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁰ But when the cloud, a column of smoke, began to rise out of the city, the Benjaminites looked behind them—and there was the whole city going up in smoke toward the sky!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ But when the [signal] cloud began to rise out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to the heavens.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ But then the column of smoke began to rise from the city. When the Benjaminites looked back, there was the entire city going up in smoke to the sky.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ And they saw something like a pillar of smoke ascending from the city. Likewise, Benjamin, looking back, discerned that the city was captured, for the flames were being carried on high.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁰ And perceived as it were a pillar of smoke rise up from the city; and Benjamin, looking back, saw that the city was taken, and that the flames ascended on high:

Judges 20:40 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 19:28

and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

Song of Solomon 3:6

Who is that coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of the merchant?

Joel 2:30

I will show portents in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

Joshua 8:20

So when the men of Ai looked back, the smoke of the city was rising to the sky. They had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.

Revelation 19:3

Once more they said, “Hallelujah! The smoke goes up from her forever and ever.”

Judges 19:16

Then at evening there was an old man coming from his work in the field. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was residing in Gibeah. (The people of the place were Benjaminites.)