Judges 20:29–38

²⁹And Israel ^aset liers in wait round about Gibeah. ³⁰And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. ³¹And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began ^†to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to ^||the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. ³²And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, ^bas at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways. ³³And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah. ³⁴And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: ^cbut they knew not that evil was near them. ³⁵And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

³⁶So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah. ^37dAnd the liers in wait hasted, and ^erushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait ^||drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. 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.