Joshua 8:20

Amplified Bible

When the men of Ai turned back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city was ascending toward the sky, and they had no opportunity to run this way or that way. Then the people who had been running to the wilderness turned back toward the pursuers.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley [of the Dead Sea]; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a kiln (pottery furnace).

Job 11:20

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And they will not escape [the justice of God]; And their hope is to breathe their last [and die].”

Psalm 76:5

The stouthearted have been stripped of their spoil, They have slept the sleep [of death]; And none of the warriors could use his hands.

Isaiah 34:10

The burning will not be quenched night or day; Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation it will lie in ruins; No one will ever again pass through it. [Rev 19:3]

Joshua 8:19

The [men in] ambush emerged quickly from their [hiding] place, and when Joshua stretched out his hand they ran and entered the city and captured it, and quickly set the city on fire.

Joshua 8:21

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the [men in] ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city was ascending, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.

Revelation 18:9

“And the kings and political leaders of the earth, who committed immorality and lived luxuriously with her, will weep and beat their chests [in mourning] over her when they see the smoke of her burning, [Ezek 26:16, 17]

Revelation 19:3

And a second time they said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke shall ascend forever and ever.” [Is 34:10]

Judges 20:38

Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that they would make a great cloud of smoke rise from the city.

Judges 20:40

But when the [signal] cloud began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the entire city went up in smoke to heaven.

Judges 20:41

When the men of Israel turned back again, the men of Benjamin were terrified, for they saw that disaster had fallen upon them.