Judges 20:40
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.
KJV
et viderent quasi columnam fumi de civitate conscendere : Benjamin quoque aspiciens retro, cum captam cerneret civitatem, et flammas in sublime ferri :
Vulgate
καὶ τὸ σύσσημον ἀνέβη ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως ὡς στύλος καπνοῦ· καὶ ἐπέβλεψεν Βενιαμεὶν ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνέβη ἡ συντέλεια τῆς πόλεως ἕως οὐρανοῦ.
LXX
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.
ASV
וְ/הַ/מַּשְׂאֵ֗ת הֵחֵ֛לָּה לַ/עֲל֥וֹת מִן הָ/עִ֖יר עַמּ֣וּד עָשָׁ֑ן וַ/יִּ֤פֶן בִּנְיָמִן֙ אַחֲרָ֔י/ו וְ/הִנֵּ֛ה עָלָ֥ה כְלִיל הָ/עִ֖יר הַ/שָּׁמָֽיְמָ/ה
Hebrew
Open in reader with connections →
In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Joel 2:30 — And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
- Joel 2:30 — And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
- Josh 8:20 — 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 wilde
- Rev 19:3 — And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.