Judges 20:29–38

²⁹So the Israelites put some soldiers in hiding round Gibeah. ³⁰Then for the third successive day they marched against the army of Benjamin and placed their soldiers in battle position facing Gibeah, as they had done before. ³¹The Benjaminites came out to fight and were led away from the city. As before, they began killing some Israelites in the open country on the road to Bethel and on the road to Gibeah. They killed about 30 Israelites. ³²The Benjaminites said, “We’ve beaten them just as we did before.”

But the Israelites had planned to retreat and lead them away from the city on to the roads. ³³So when the main army of the Israelites pulled back and regrouped at Baaltamar, the men surrounding Gibeah suddenly rushed out of their hiding places in the rocky country round the city.^{w 34}Ten thousand men, specially chosen out of all Israel, attacked Gibeah, and the fighting was hard. The Benjaminites had not realized that they were about to be destroyed. ³⁵The Lord gave Israel victory over the army of Benjamin. The Israelites killed 25,100 of the enemy that day, ³⁶and the Benjaminites realized they were defeated.