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 will look out upon the face of Sodom and Gomorrah and upon all the face of the earth of the circuit, and he will see, and behold the smoke of the earth ascended as the smoke of a furnace.
Isaiah 34:10
Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall be laid waste; none passing through it forever to forever.
Revelation 18:9
And weep for her, and lament over her, shall the kings of the earth having been debauched with her, and having led an insolent life, when they see the smoke of her burning,
Revelation 19:3
And the second time they said, Alleluia. And her smoke goes up for ever and ever.

And they had

Job 11:20
And the eyes of the unjust shall be consumed, and flight shall perish from them, and their hope a breathing out of the soul.
Psalm 48:5
They saw, so they were astonished; they trembled, they took flight
Psalm 76:5
The mighty of heart were spoiled, they slumbered their sleep: and all the men of strength found not their hands.
Amos 2:14
And flight perished from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his power, and the mighty shall not save his soul.
Revelation 6:15
And the kings of the earth, and the great, and the rich, and the captains of thousands, and the powerful, and every servant, and every one free, hid themselves in caves and in rocks of the mountains;