Joshua 8:20

Overview - Joshua 8
God encourages Joshua.
The stratagem whereby Ai was taken.
29 The king thereof is hanged.
30 Joshua builds an altar;
32 writes the law on stones;
33 and pronounces the blessings and curses.
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Joshua 8:20  (King James Version)
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.
 


the smoke
Genesis 19:28 ; Isaiah 34:10 ; Revelation 18:9 ; 19:3

and they had
Job 11:20 ; Psalms 48:5 Psalms 48:6 ; 76:5 Amos 2:14-16 ; Revelation 6:15-17

power
Hebrew hand.