07:020:032 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.
07:020:033 And all the men of Israel rose up out of
their place, and put
themselves
in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of
Israel
came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows
of
Gibeah.
07:020:034 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.
07:020:035 And the lord 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.
07:020:036 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.
07:020:037 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.
07:020:038 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.
07:020:039 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.
07:020:040 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.
07:020:041 And when the men of Israel turned again,
the men of Benjamin
were
amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
07:020:042 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.
07:020:043 Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round
about, and chased
them,
and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward
the
sunrising.
07:020:044 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand
men; all these
were
men of valour.
07:020:045 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.


