Josua 8:20

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När då männen från Ai vände sig om, fingo de se röken från staden stiga upp mot himmelen; och de hade ingen utväg att fly, vare sig hit eller dit, då nu det folk som flydde åt öknen vände sig mot sina förföljare.

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  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the smoke: Genesis 19:28, Isaiah 34:10, Revelation 18:9, Revelation 19:3

and they had: Job 11:20, Psalms 48:5, Psalms 48:6, Psalms 76:5, Amos 2:14-16, Revelation 6:15-17

power: Heb. hand

Reciprocal: Judges 20:40 - looked Judges 20:43 - enclosed 1 Samuel 13:6 - in a strait 2 Kings 3:24 - smote the 2 Chronicles 13:14 - looked back Daniel 8:7 - and there was no Joel 2:30 - pillars 1 Thessalonians 5:3 - then

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when the men of Ai looked behind them,.... On some account or another, perhaps observing that the army of Israel made a full stop and was gazing at the city:

they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven; from whence they concluded an enemy was there, and had set fire to it:

and they had no power to flee this way or that way; for if they turned back to their city there was an enemy, how powerful they knew not, possessed of it, and whom they might expect would meet them; and if they pushed forward, there was the whole army of Israel against them, which now turned and faced them, showing no fear of them:

and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers; the people of Israel, that fled by the way of the wilderness, Joshua 8:15, turned about, and fell upon the men of Ai that pursued them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 8:20. They had no power to flee this way or that way — They were in utter consternation; they saw that the city was taken, they found themselves in the midst of their foes; that their wives, children, and property, had fallen a prey to their enemies, in consequence of which they were so utterly panic-struck as to be incapable of making any resistance.