Joshua 8:20
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. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
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Joshua 8:20
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. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
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Genesis 1:14
God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to mark seasons, days, and years;
1 Kings 22:16
The king said to him, “How many times do I have to adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in Yahweh’s name?”
Micah 6:16
For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and your inhabitants a hissing. You will bear the reproach of my people.”
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Exodus 14:11
They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?
Exodus 14:12
Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
Judges 10:9
The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was very distressed.
1 Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in rocks, in tombs, and in pits.
2 Samuel 24:14
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let us fall now into Yahweh’s hand, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into man’s hand.”
Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
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Leviticus 26:37
They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
Daniel 8:7
I saw him come close to the ram, and he was moved with anger against him, and struck the ram, and broke his two horns. There was no power in the ram to stand before him; but he cast him down to the ground and trampled on him. There was no one who could deliver the ram out of his hand.
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Numbers 2:17
“Then the Tent of Meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the middle of the camps. As they encamp, so shall they set out, every man in his place, by their standards.
Isaiah 56:5
I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
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Numbers 21:35
So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.
Numbers 31:7
They fought against Midian, as Yahweh commanded Moses. They killed every male.
Joshua 10:10
Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
Joshua 10:19
but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”
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Joshua 6:24
They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.
Joshua 11:13
But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that.
Judges 18:27
They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.
1 Samuel 30:1
When David and his men had come to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid on the South and on Ziklag, and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire,
1 Kings 9:16
Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer, burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
2 Chronicles 36:19
They burned God’s house, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.
Job 1:16
While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God has fallen from the sky, and has burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
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Joshua 8:7
and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
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Joshua 8:16
All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
Joshua 8:17
There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
Joshua 8:25
All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the people of Ai.
Joshua 8:26
For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
Joshua 8:27
Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to Yahweh’s word which he commanded Joshua.
Joshua 8:28
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
Joshua 8:29
He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
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Judges 20:34
Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.
Judges 20:35
Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men. All these drew the sword.
Judges 20:44
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
Judges 20:45
They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them.
Judges 20:46
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valor.
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Judges 20:39
The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, “Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.”
2 Samuel 10:8
The children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entrance of the gate. The Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the field.
2 Samuel 10:9
Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel and put them in array against the Syrians.
2 Samuel 10:10
The rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 10:11
He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.
2 Samuel 10:12
Be courageous, and let’s be strong for our people and for the cities of our God; and may Yahweh do what seems good to him.”
2 Samuel 10:13
So Joab and the people who were with him came near to the battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.
2 Samuel 10:14
When the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians had fled, they likewise fled before Abishai, and entered into the city. Then Joab returned from the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.
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Nehemiah 7:4
Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
Psalms 104:25
There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.
Isaiah 22:18
He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you disgrace of your lord’s house.
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Job 37:7
He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.
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Song of Solomon 3:6
Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
Isaiah 34:10
It won’t be quenched night or day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.
Joel 2:30
I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
Revelation 18:18
and cried out as they looked at the smoke of her burning, saying, ‘What is like the great city?’
Revelation 19:3
A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”
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2 Kings 3:24
When they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land attacking the Moabites.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”
Psalms 48:5
They saw it, then they were amazed. They were dismayed. They hurried away.
Psalms 48:6
Trembling took hold of them there, pain, as of a woman in travail.
Amos 2:14
Flight will perish from the swift. The strong won’t strengthen his force. The mighty won’t deliver himself.
Amos 2:15
He who handles the bow won’t stand. He who is swift of foot won’t escape. He who rides the horse won’t deliver himself.
Amos 2:16
He who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,” says Yahweh.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
1 Thessalonians 5:4
But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
Revelation 6:15
The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
Revelation 6:16
They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
Revelation 6:17
for the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”
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