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.
40
But when the signal began to arise up out of the city, a pillar of smoke, those of Benjamin looked behind them, and, behold, the whole consumption of the city ascended up to heaven.
41
Then the men of Israel turned again, and the men of Benjamin were terrified, for they saw that evil was come upon them.
42
Therefore, they turned
their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and those who
came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
43
Thus they inclosed those of Benjamin round about
and chased them
and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.