38The men of Israel had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city,


In Context

35 The LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and on that day the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

36 Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten. Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.

37 The men who had been in ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah, spread out and put the whole city to the sword.

38 The men of Israel had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city,

39 and then the men of Israel would turn in the battle. The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the men of Israel (about thirty), and they said, "We are defeating them as in the first battle."

40 But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the smoke of the whole city going up into the sky.

Judges 20:38 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:38Now the children of Israel had given a sign to them, whom they had laid in ambushes, that after they had taken the city, they should make a fire: that by the smoke rising on high, they might shew that the city was taken.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:38Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait was, that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:38Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:38Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait was, that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke to rise from the city.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:38Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:38And there was the appointed sign to the men of Israel with the ambush — their causing to go up a great volume of smoke from the city.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.