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Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against
Gibeah, as at other times.
31
And 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.
32
And the children of Benjamin said, They
are
smitten down before us, as at
the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
33
And 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.
34
And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore:
but they knew not that evil
was
near them.
35
And the L
ORD
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.
36
So 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.
37
And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait
drew
themselves
along, 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 liers in wait, that they should make a great flame
with smoke rise up out of the city.
39
And 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.
40
But when the flame began to arise up out of the city
with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city
ascended up to heaven.
41
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were
amazed: 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 them which
came
out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
43
Thus
they inclosed the Benjamites
round about,
and
chased them,
and
trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the
sunrising.
44
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these
were
men of valour.
45
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of
them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two
thousand men of them.
46
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand
men that drew the sword; all these
were
men of valour.
47
But six hundred men turned and fled to
the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
48
And 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.
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