THEOSISJoshua 8:20Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And the men of the city, that pursued after Joshua, looking back, and seeing the smoke of the city rise up to heaven, had no more power to flee this way or that way: especially as they that had counterfeited flight, and were going toward the wilderness, turned back most valiantly against them that pursued.
וַיִּפְנ֣וּ אַנְשֵׁי֩ הָעַ֨י אַחֲרֵיהֶ֜ם וַיִּרְא֗וּ וְהִנֵּ֨ה עָלָ֜ה עֲשַׁ֤ן הָעִיר֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יְמָה וְלֹא־הָיָ֨ה בָהֶ֥ם יָדַ֛יִם לָנ֖וּס הֵ֣נָּה וָהֵ֑נָּה וְהָעָם֙ הַנָּ֣ס הַמִּדְבָּ֔ר נֶהְפַּ֖ךְ אֶל־הָרוֹדֵֽף׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Rev 6:15And the kings of the earth and the princes and tribunes and the rich and the strong and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains:
- Rev 6:17For the great day of their wrath is come. And who shall be able to stand?
- Ps 48 (47):5
- Ps 48 (47):6
- Rev 18:9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail themselves over her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning:
- Rev 19:3And again they said: Alleluia. And her smoke ascendeth for ever and ever.
- Amos 2:14And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.
- Amos 2:16And the stout of heart among the valiant shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.