Judges 20:29–38

²⁹So Israel stationed an ambush all around Gibeah. ³⁰And the Israelites^r went up against the descendants^s of Benjamin on the third day, and they took up positions against Gibeah as before. ³¹The descendants^t of Benjamin went out to meet the troops, and they lured them away from the city and began to inflict casualties on the troops as before, on the main road, one of which goes up to Bethel, the other to Gibeah; and in the field there were about thirty men of Israel. ³²And the descendants^u of Benjamin thought,^v “They are being defeated before us as previously,”^w and the Israelites^x said, “Let us flee and lure them^y away from the city to the main roads.” ³³And all the men of Israel got up from their places^z and took up positions in Baal Tamar; and the ambush of Israel charged from their places,^a from the vicinity of Gibeah.^{b 34}Then ten thousand well-trained^c men from all Israel came out against Gibeah, and the battle became fierce;^d they did not know that disaster was about to close in^e on them. ³⁵And Yahweh defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and the Israelites^f destroyed on that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them sword-wielding.^g

³⁶The descendants^h of Benjamin saw that they were defeated, and the men of Israel gave groundⁱ to Benjamin because they trusted the ambush that they had set against Gibeah. ³⁷And the ambush came quickly and advanced against Gibeah, and it put the whole city to the sword.^{j 38}Now the appointed time for the men of Israel with the ambush was that they sent up for them a great amount of smoke from the city.