Joshua 8:20

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When the men of Ai looked back they saw the smoke rising up into the sky from the town. They had nowhere to run to, because the Israelites who had been running away towards the wilderness now turned on their pursuers.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

He looked down at Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley floor, and saw the land burning, sending up smoke like from a furnace.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, they will not be able to escape, and their only hope is in death.”

Psalm 76:5

Our most courageous enemies have been plundered. They sleep the sleep of death. Even the strongest of them could not raise a hand against us.

Isaiah 34:10

The fire will burn day and night, and will never go out, its smoke will rise forever. From one generation to the next it will remain desolate—people won't ever go there again.

Joshua 8:19

As soon as they saw this signal the men lying in ambush got up and rushed into the town. They captured it, and quickly set it on fire.

Joshua 8:21

For when Joshua and the Israelites saw that the ambush group had captured the town, and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai.

Revelation 18:9

The kings of the earth who had committed adultery with her and indulged their lusts with her will cry and mourn over her when they see the smoke of the fire that destroys her.

Revelation 19:3

Again they shouted, “Hallelujah! The smoke from her destruction ascends for ever and ever.”

Judges 20:38

The agreement was that they would send up a great cloud of smoke to show the town had fallen.

Judges 20:40

However, when the Israelites saw the columns of smoke rising heavenwards to form a great cloud over the whole of the town,

Judges 20:41

they turned on their enemies. The Benjamites were horrified when they saw it and realized they were doomed.