Joshua 8:20

God's Word

When the men of Ai looked back, they could see the city going up in smoke. They had no place to go, since the Israelites, who had been running toward the desert, had now turned back on them.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

When he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land in the plain, he saw smoke rising from the land like the thick smoke of a furnace.

Job 11:20

But the wicked will lose their eyesight. Their escape route will be closed. Their only hope is to take their last breath.”

Psalm 76:5

Brave people were robbed. They died. None of the warriors were able to lift a hand.

Isaiah 34:10

They will not be extinguished day or night, and smoke will always go up from them. Edom will lie in ruins for generations. No one will ever travel through it.

Joshua 8:19

The men who were hiding got up as soon as he stretched out his hand. They entered the city, captured it, and quickly set it on fire.

Joshua 8:21

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men who had been hiding had captured the city and that it was going up in smoke, they turned and attacked the men of Ai.

Revelation 18:9

“The kings of the earth who had sex with her and lived in luxury with her will cry and mourn over her when they see the smoke rise from her raging fire.

Revelation 19:3

A second time they said, “Hallelujah! The smoke goes up from her forever and ever.”

Judges 20:38

The men of Israel had arranged with those waiting in ambush that they would make a big column of smoke rise from the city as a signal.

Judges 20:40

But when the column of smoke started to rise from the city, the men of Benjamin turned around and saw the whole city going up in smoke.

Judges 20:41

Then the men of Israel turned around, and the men of Benjamin panicked. They realized that their evil had overtaken them.