Joshua 8:20

WEB

²⁰When 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. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

KJV

²⁰And 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.

BSB

²⁰When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

FBV

²⁰When the men of Ai looked back they saw the smoke rising up into the sky from the town. They had nowhere to run to, because the Israelites who had been running away towards the wilderness now turned on their pursuers.

Extra References

Revelation 6:15-17

¹⁵The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. ¹⁶They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, ¹⁷for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”

Job 11:20

²⁰But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

Psalms 48:5-6

⁵They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away. ⁶Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.

Genesis 19:28

²⁸He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Psalms 76:5

⁵Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.

Revelation 19:3

³A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”

Amos 2:14-16

¹⁴Flight will perish from the swift. The strong won’t strengthen his force. The mighty won’t deliver himself. ¹⁵He who handles the bow won’t stand. He who is swift of foot won’t escape. He who rides the horse won’t deliver himself. ¹⁶He who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,” says the LORD.

Revelation 18:9

⁹The kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,

Isaiah 34:10

¹⁰It won’t be quenched night or day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.