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Judges 20:40

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But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

But when the flame {H4864} began {H2490} to arise up {H5927} out of the city {H5892} with a pillar {H5982} of smoke {H6227}, the Benjamites {H1145} looked {H6437} behind {H310} them, and, behold, the flame {H3632} of the city {H5892} ascended up {H5927} to heaven {H8064}.

But when the smoke signal began rising from the city, the men of Binyamin looked behind them and saw the whole city going up to the sky in smoke.

But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.

But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.

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Cross-References

  • Joshua 8:20 (5 votes)

    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.

  • Revelation 19:3 (2 votes)

    And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

  • Joel 2:30 (2 votes)

    And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

  • Song Of Solomon 3:6 (2 votes)

    ¶ Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

  • Genesis 19:28 (2 votes)

    And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.