Joshua 8:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So when the men of Ai looked back, the smoke of the city was rising to the sky. They had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.

Cross References

Genesis 19:28

and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of a furnace.

Job 11:20

But the eyes of the wicked will fail; all way of escape will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last.”

Psalm 76:5

The courageous were stripped of their spoil; they sank into sleep; none of the troops was able to lift a hand.

Isaiah 34:10

Night and day it shall not be quenched; 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

As soon as he stretched out his hand, the troops in ambush rose quickly out of their place and rushed forward. They entered the city, took it, and at once set the city on fire.

Joshua 8:21

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city was rising, then they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.

Revelation 18:9

And the kings of the earth, who engaged in sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning;

Revelation 19:3

Once more they said, “Hallelujah! The smoke goes up from her forever and ever.”

Judges 20:38

Now the agreement between the main body of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they sent up a cloud of smoke out of the city

Judges 20:40

But when the cloud, a column of smoke, began to rise out of the city, the Benjaminites looked behind them—and there was the whole city going up in smoke toward the sky!

Judges 20:41

Then the main body of Israel turned, and the Benjaminites were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.