Joshua 8:20

New King James Version

And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven. So they had no power to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

Then he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain; and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land which went up like the smoke of a furnace.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And they shall not escape, And their hope—loss of life!”

Psalm 76:5

The stouthearted were plundered; They have sunk into their sleep; And none of the mighty men have found the use of their hands.

Isaiah 34:10

It shall not be quenched night or day; Its smoke shall ascend forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; No one shall pass through it forever and ever.

Joshua 8:19

So those in ambush arose quickly out of their place; they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered the city and took it, and hurried to set the city on fire.

Joshua 8:21

Now when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.

Revelation 18:9

“The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her will weep and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

Revelation 19:3

Again they said, “Alleluia! Her smoke rises up forever and ever!”

Judges 20:38

Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that they would make a great cloud of smoke rise up from the city,

Judges 20:40

But when the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and there was the whole city going up in smoke to heaven.

Judges 20:41

And when the men of Israel turned back, the men of Benjamin panicked, for they saw that disaster had come upon them.