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Jdg 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

a pillar		Gen 19:28; Sgs 3:6; Joe 2:30; Rev 19:3
looked		Jos 8:20
flame		Heb. whole consumption.

Correlating Passages

a pillar

	Gen 19:28	And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
	Sgs 3:6	Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
	Joe 2:30	And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
	Rev 19:3	And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

looked

Jos 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 wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

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Scott, Thomas. "Judges 20:40," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Jdg/20/40.html>.

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