Joshua 8:20 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

^20-21 When Joshua and his troops saw smoke rising from the town, they knew that the other part of their army had captured it. So they turned and attacked. The men of Ai looked back and saw smoke rising from their town. But they could not escape, because the soldiers they had been chasing had suddenly turned and started fighting.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And 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 that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ When the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to the heavens, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. Then the Israelites who fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And 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 that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Then the men of Ai turned around. They caught sight of the smoke of the city rising toward the sky. They had no chance to flee one way or the other. The troops who were fleeing toward the desert turned against the pursuit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Now the men of the city who were pursuing Joshua, looking back and seeing the smoke of the city rising up even to heaven, were no longer able to flee in one direction or another, especially since those who had pretended to flee, and who were heading toward the wilderness, had turned back very strongly against those who were pursuing them.

Joshua 8:20 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 19:28

He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and saw smoke rising from all over the land—it was like a flaming furnace.

Job 11:20

But those who are evil will go blind and lose their way. Their only escape is death!

Psalm 76:5

Brave warriors were robbed of what they had taken, and now they lie dead, unable to lift an arm.

Isaiah 34:10

It will burn night and day and never stop smoking. Edom will be a desert, generation after generation; no one will ever travel through that land.

Joshua 8:19

the soldiers who had been hiding jumped up and ran into the town. They captured it and set it on fire.

Revelation 18:9

Every king on earth who slept with her and shared in her luxury will mourn. They will weep, when they see the smoke from that fire.

Revelation 19:3

Then the crowd shouted, “Praise the Lord! Smoke will never stop rising from her burning body.”