Joshua 8:20

Good News Translation

When the men of Ai looked back, they saw the smoke rising to the sky. There was no way for them to escape, because the Israelites who had run toward the barren country now turned around to attack them.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

He looked down at Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a huge furnace.

Job 11:20

But the wicked will look around in despair and find that there is no way to escape. Their one hope is that death will come.

Psalm 76:5

Their brave soldiers have been stripped of all they had and now are sleeping the sleep of death; all their strength and skill was useless.

Isaiah 34:10

It will burn day and night, and smoke will rise from it forever. The land will lie waste age after age, and no one will ever travel through it again.

Joshua 8:19

and as soon as he lifted his hand, the men who had been hiding got up quickly, ran into the city and captured it. They immediately set the city on fire.

Joshua 8:21

When Joshua and his men saw that the others had taken the city and that it was on fire, they turned around and began killing the men of Ai.

Revelation 18:9

The kings of the earth who took part in her immorality and lust will cry and weep over the city when they see the smoke from the flames that consume her.

Revelation 19:3

Again they shouted, “Praise God! The smoke from the flames that consume the great city goes up forever and ever!”

Judges 20:38

The main Israelite army and the men in hiding had arranged a signal. When they saw a big cloud of smoke going up from the town,

Judges 20:40

Then the signal appeared; a cloud of smoke began to go up from the town. The Benjaminites looked behind them and were amazed to see the whole city going up in flames.

Judges 20:41

Then the Israelites turned around, and the Benjaminites were thrown into panic because they realized that they were about to be destroyed.