29
And Israel set ambushes round about Gibeah.
30
And the sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day and put themselves in order against Gibeah as at the other times.
31
And the sons 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 the other times in the highways, one of which goes up to the house of God and the other to Gibeah by the field,
and they killed about thirty men of Israel.
32
And the sons of Benjamin said, They
are smitten down before us as at the first. But the sons of Israel said, Let us flee and draw them from the city unto the highways.
33
Then all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and put themselves in order at Baaltamar, and also those of the ambushes of Israel came forth out of their place, out of the meadows of Gibeah.
34
And ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came against Gibeah, and the battle was sore; but they did not know that evil
was near them.
35
And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel, and the sons of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men; all these drew the sword.
36
So the sons of Benjamin saw that they were smitten, for the men of Israel had given place to the Benjamites because they trusted those of the ambushes which they had set behind Gibeah.
37
Then the men of the ambushes rushed upon Gibeah and spread out and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
38
Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and
the men of the ambushes that they should make a great signal by causing much smoke to rise up out of the city.
39
Then when the men of Israel turned
their backs in the battle and those of 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.