Judges 20:36–48

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. ^39fAnd when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began ^†to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle. ⁴⁰But when the ^gflame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites ^hlooked behind them, and, behold, ^†the flame of the city ascended up to heaven. ⁴¹And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil ^†was come upon them. ⁴²Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto ⁱthe way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them. ⁴³Thus they ^kinclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down ^||with ease ^†over against Gibeah toward the sunrising. ⁴⁴And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour. ⁴⁵And they turned and fled toward ⁱthe wilderness unto the rock of ^lRimmon: and they ^mgleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them. ⁴⁶So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were ⁿtwenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour. ^47oBut six hundred men turned and fled to ⁱthe wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months. ⁴⁸And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that ^†came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that ^†they came to.