Joshua 8:20

Ai Is Destroyed

¹⁹ The men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it, and they quickly set the city on fire. ²⁰ When the men of Ai turned back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers. ²¹ When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and slew the men of Ai.

Ascended to Heaven

Ai

Israelites

No

Genesis 19:28

and he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the valley, and he saw, and behold, the smoke of the land ascended like the smoke of a furnace.

Job 11:20

“But the eyes of the wicked will fail,
And there will be no escape for them;
And their hope is to breathe their last.”

Psalm 48:5-6

They saw it, then they were amazed;
They were terrified, they fled in alarm.

Psalm 76:5

The stouthearted were plundered,
They sank into sleep;
And none of the warriors could use his hands.

Isaiah 34:10

It will not be quenched night or day;
Its smoke will go up forever.
From generation to generation it will be desolate;
None will pass through it forever and ever.

Amos 2:14-16

“Flight will perish from the swift,
And the stalwart will not strengthen his power,
Nor the mighty man save his life.

Revelation 6:15-17

Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the commanders and the rich and the strong and every slave and free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains;

Revelation 18:9

“And the kings of the earth, who committed acts of immorality and lived sensuously with her, will weep and lament over her when they see the smoke of her burning,

Revelation 19:3

And a second time they said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises up forever and ever.”