But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Binyamini looked behind them; and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to the sky.
He looked toward Sedom and `Amorah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
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 who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill country of Efrayim, and he sojourned in Gevah; but the men of the place were Binyamini.