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Douay-Rheims
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And perceived, as it were, a pillar of smoke rise up from the city; and Benjamin looking back, saw that the city was taken, and that the flames ascended on high:
King James
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But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
Louis Second
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Cependant une épaisse colonne de fumée commençait à s'élever de la ville. Les Benjamites regardèrent derrière eux; et voici, de la ville entière les flammes montaient vers le ciel
Martin Luther
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da fing an sich zu erheben von der Stadt ein Rauch stracks über sich. Und Benjamin wandte sich hinter sich, und siehe, da ging die Stadt ganz auf gen Himmel.
Vulgate
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et viderent quasi columnam fumi de civitate conscendere Beniamin quoque retro aspiciens captam cerneret civitatem et flammas in sublime ferri

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


quasi : as if, just as, just as if, as it were /a sort of.
de : (prep. + abl.) down from, from, concerning, about.
quoque : also, too.
in : (+ acc.) into, toward, against.
in : (+ abl.) in.
sublime : on high, aloft.