Judges 20:38-40
English Standard Version
38 Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in the main ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city 39 the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel. They said, (A)“Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.” 40 But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, (B)the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.
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Judges 20:38-40
New International Version
38 The Israelites had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke(A) from the city,(B) 39 and then the Israelites would counterattack.
The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.”(C) 40 But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the whole city going up in smoke.(D)
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