⁴⁰ But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, ^(A)the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.

²⁰ So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.

³ Once more they cried out,

³⁰ “And I will show ^(A)wonders in the heavens and ^(B)on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.

²⁸ And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.