Judges 20:40

Overview - Judges 20
The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong.
The decree of the assembly.
12 The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites.
18 The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand.
26 They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites, except six hundred.
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Judges 20:40  (King James Version)
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.
 


a pillar
Genesis 19:28 ; Solomon 3:6 ; Joel 2:30 ; Revelation 19:3

looked
Joshua 8:20

flame
Hebrew whole consumption.