Judges 20:40

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But when the signal, a pillar of smoke, began to rise up from the city, the Benjaminites turned around and saw the whole city going up in a cloud of smoke that rose high into the sky.

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  • Josh 8:20 : 20 When the men of Ai turned around, they saw the smoke from the city ascending into the sky and were so shocked they were unable to flee in any direction. In the meantime the men who were retreating to the wilderness turned against their pursuers.
  • Song 3:6 : 6 The Royal Wedding ProcessionThe Speaker: Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, like a fragrant billow of myrrh and frankincense, every kind of fragrant powder of the traveling merchants?
  • Joel 2:30 : 30 I will produce portents both in the sky and on the earth– blood, fire, and columns of smoke.
  • Rev 19:3 : 3 Then a second time the crowd shouted,“Hallelujah!” The smoke rises from her forever and ever.
  • Gen 19:28 : 28 He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

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  • Judg 20:30-39
    10 verses
    84%

    30The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

    31The Benjaminites attacked the army, leaving the city unguarded. They began to strike down their enemy just as they had done before. On the main roads(one leads to Bethel, the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down about thirty Israelites.

    32Then the Benjaminites said,“They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said,“Let’s retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads.”

    33All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.

    34Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah– the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep.

    35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.

    36Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.

    37The men hiding in ambush made a mad dash to Gibeah. They attacked and put the sword to the entire city.

    38The Israelites and the men hiding in ambush had arranged a signal. When the men hiding in ambush sent up a smoke signal from the city,

    39the Israelites counterattacked. Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; they struck down about thirty men. They said,“There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

  • Judg 20:41-48
    8 verses
    81%

    41When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep.

    42They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down.

    43They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, and annihilated them all the way to a spot east of Geba.

    44Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.

    45The rest turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites caught five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

    46That day twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.

    47Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

    48The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.

  • Josh 8:19-21
    3 verses
    76%

    19When he held out his hand, the men waiting in ambush rose up quickly from their place and attacked. They entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

    20When the men of Ai turned around, they saw the smoke from the city ascending into the sky and were so shocked they were unable to flee in any direction. In the meantime the men who were retreating to the wilderness turned against their pursuers.

    21When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the city was going up in smoke, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

  • Judg 20:9-15
    7 verses
    74%

    9Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates.

    10We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel(and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.”

    11So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies.

    12The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying,“How could such a wicked thing take place?

    13Now, hand over the good-for-nothings in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.

    14The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.

    15That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19The Israelites got up the next morning and moved against Gibeah.

    20The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.

    21The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.

  • Judg 20:23-25
    3 verses
    72%

    23The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening. They asked the LORD,“Should we again march out to fight the Benjaminites, our brothers?” The LORD said,“Attack them!”

    24So the Israelites marched toward the Benjaminites the next day.

    25The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.

  • Judg 20:3
    71%

    3The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said,“Explain how this wicked thing happened!”

  • Gen 19:28
    69%

    28He looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace.

  • Jer 6:1
    69%

    1The Destruction of Jerusalem Depicted“Run for safety, people of Benjamin! Get out of Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Light the signal fires at Beth Hakkerem! For disaster lurks out of the north; it will bring great destruction.

  • Judg 19:14
    68%

    14So they traveled on, and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.

  • 1 Sam 14:16
    68%

    16Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin looked on as the crowd of soldiers seemed to melt away first in one direction and then in another.

  • Judg 19:16
    68%

    16But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah.(The residents of the town were Benjaminites.)

  • 2 Sam 2:25
    67%

    25The Benjaminites formed their ranks behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill.

  • Num 21:28
    67%

    28For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has consumed Ar of Moab and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

  • Hos 5:8
    67%

    8The Prophet’s Declaration of Judgment Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah! Sound the trumpet in Ramah! Sound the alarm in Beth Aven! Tremble in fear, O Benjamin!

  • Exod 24:17
    67%

    17Now the appearance of the glory of the LORD was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain in plain view of the people.

  • Judg 20:17
    67%

    17The men of Israel(not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.

  • Judg 1:8
    67%

    8The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it. They put the sword to it and set the city on fire.

  • Joel 2:3
    67%

    3Like fire they devour everything in their path; a flame blazes behind them. The land looks like the Garden of Eden before them, but behind them there is only a desolate wilderness– for nothing escapes them!

  • Judg 21:15
    67%

    15The people regretted what had happened to Benjamin because the LORD had weakened the Israelite tribes.

  • 1 Kgs 20:30
    67%

    30The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room.