Verse 20

And the men of Ai looked behinde them, and sawe it: for loe, the smoke of the citie ascended vp to heauen, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: for the people that fled to the wildernesse, turned backe vpon the pursuers.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 19:28 : 28 And looking towarde Sodom and Gomorah and toward all the land of the plaine, behold, he sawe the smoke of the lande mounting vp as the smoke of a fornace.
  • Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.
  • Ps 48:5-6 : 5 When they sawe it, they marueiled: they were astonied, and suddenly driuen backe. 6 Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.
  • Ps 76:5 : 5 The stout hearted are spoyled: they haue slept their sleepe, and all the men of strength haue not found their hands.
  • Isa 34:10 : 10 It shal not be quenched night nor day: the smoke thereof shall goe vp euermore: it shall be desolate from generation to generation: none shall passe through it for euer.
  • Amos 2:14-16 : 14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mightie saue his life. 15 Nor he that handleth the bowe, shal stand, and he that is swift of foote, shall not escape, neyther shall he that rideth the horse, saue his life. 16 And he that is of a mighty courage among the strong men, shall flee away naked in that day, sayth the Lord.
  • Rev 6:15-17 : 15 And the Kinges of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chiefe captaines, and the mighty men, and euery bondman, and euery free man, hid themselues in dennes, & among the rockes of the mountaines, 16 And said to the mountaines & rocks, Fal on vs, and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lambe. 17 For the great day of his wrath is come, and who can stand?
  • Rev 18:9 : 9 And the kings of the earth shall bewayle her, and lament for her, which haue committed fornication, and liued in pleasure with her, when they shall see that smoke of that her burning,
  • Rev 19:3 : 3 And againe they saide, Hallelu-iah: and that her smoke rose vp for euermore.