Joshua 8:20

Modern English Version

So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven! So they had no power to feel this way or that way, and the people who had fled into the wilderness had turned back toward their pursuers.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and they will not escape, and their hope will be as the giving up of breath.”

Psalm 76:5

The stouthearted were plundered; they sank into sleep; and none of the mighty men could use his hands.

Isaiah 34:10

It shall not be quenched night or day; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it forever and ever.

Joshua 8:19

When his hand pointed, the men in ambush got up quickly from their place and ran. They came into the city, captured it, and quickly set the city on fire.

Joshua 8:21

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city and that smoke rose from it, they turned and struck down the men of Ai.

Revelation 18:9

“The kings of the earth, who have committed adultery and lived luxuriously with her, will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her burning.

Revelation 19:3

Again they said: “Alleluia! Her smoke rises forever and ever.”

Judges 20:38

The men of Israel had made an agreement with the ambushing force that when they sent up a large amount of smoke from the city,

Judges 20:40

Yet when the smoke began to rise up from the city in a column, the Benjamites looked behind them, and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.

Judges 20:41

Then the men of Israel turned around, and the men of Benjamin were horrified because they saw that disaster had come on them.