Joshua 8:20 - The Scriptures 1998

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ When the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to the heavens, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. Then the Israelites who fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Then the men of Ai turned around. They caught sight of the smoke of the city rising toward the sky. They had no chance to flee one way or the other. The troops who were fleeing toward the desert turned against the pursuit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Now the men of the city who were pursuing Joshua, looking back and seeing the smoke of the city rising up even to heaven, were no longer able to flee in one direction or another, especially since those who had pretended to flee, and who were heading toward the wilderness, had turned back very strongly against those who were pursuing them.

Joshua 8:20 Cross References

Genesis 19:28

and he looked toward Seḏ

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wrong are consumed, and they shall not escape, and their expectancy is the breathing out of life!”

Psalm 76:5

The stout-hearted have been stripped; They slept their sleep; And none of the mighty men have found their hands.

Isaiah 34:10

that is not quenched night or day, its smoke going up forever. From generation to generation it lies waste, no one passes through it forever and ever,

Joshua 8:19

and the ambush rose up quickly from their place, and they ran at the stretching out of his hand, and entered the city and took it, and hastened to burn the city with fire.

Joshua 8:21

For when Yehoshua and all Yisra’ĕ

Revelation 18:9

“And the sovereigns of the earth who committed whoring and lived riotously with her shall weep and mourn over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

Revelation 19:3

And a second time they said, “Halleluyah! And her smoke rises up forever and ever!”

Judges 20:38

And the appointed signal between the men of Yisra’ĕ

Judges 20:40

Then the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, and the Binyamites looked behind them, and saw the entire city going up in smoke to the heavens.

Judges 20:41

And when the men of Yisra’ĕ