Judges 20:38-40

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

³⁸ Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke arise from the city,

³⁹ The men of Israel should all turn back in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to smite and kill some of the men of Israel, about thirty persons. They said, Surely they are falling before us as in the first battle.

⁴⁰ But when the [signal] cloud began to rise out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to the heavens.