Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

The smoke

Genesis 19:28
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of that plain and beheld that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Isaiah 34:10
It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste; no one shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Revelation 18:9
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Revelation 19:3
And again they said, Halelu-JAH. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

And they had

Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall consume themselves, and they shall have no refuge, and their hope shall be agony of the soul.
Psalm 48:5
They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled and hasted away.
Psalm 76:5
The stouthearted are spoiled; they have slept their sleep; and nothing was found in the hands of the men of might.
Amos 2:14
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul:
Revelation 6:15
And the kings of the earth and the princes and the rich and the captains and the strong and every slave and every free man hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains