The Benjaminites attacked the army, leaving the city unguarded. They began to strike down their enemy just as they had done before. On the main roads(one leads to Bethel, the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down about thirty Israelites.
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32Then the Benjaminites said,“They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said,“Let’s retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads.”
33All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.
34Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah– the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep.
35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.
36Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.
37The men hiding in ambush made a mad dash to Gibeah. They attacked and put the sword to the entire city.
38The Israelites and the men hiding in ambush had arranged a signal. When the men hiding in ambush sent up a smoke signal from the city,
39the Israelites counterattacked. Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; they struck down about thirty men. They said,“There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”
40But when the signal, a pillar of smoke, began to rise up from the city, the Benjaminites turned around and saw the whole city going up in a cloud of smoke that rose high into the sky.
41When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep.
42They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down.
43They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, and annihilated them all the way to a spot east of Geba.
44Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.
45The rest turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites caught five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.
46That day twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.
47Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.
48The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.
29So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.
30The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.
17The men of Israel(not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.
18The Israelites went up to Bethel and asked God,“Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?” The LORD said,“Judah should lead.”
19The Israelites got up the next morning and moved against Gibeah.
20The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.
21The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.
22The Israelite army took heart and once more arranged their battle lines, in the same place where they had taken their positions the day before.
23The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening. They asked the LORD,“Should we again march out to fight the Benjaminites, our brothers?” The LORD said,“Attack them!”
24So the Israelites marched toward the Benjaminites the next day.
25The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.
9Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates.
10We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel(and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.”
11So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies.
12The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying,“How could such a wicked thing take place?
13Now, hand over the good-for-nothings in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.
14The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.
15That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.
3The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said,“Explain how this wicked thing happened!”
4The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, spoke up,“I and my concubine stopped in Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin to spend the night.
5The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.
31But David’s soldiers had slaughtered the Benjaminites and Abner’s men– in all, 360 men had died!
16But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah.(The residents of the town were Benjaminites.)
20So they commanded the Benjaminites,“Go hide in the vineyards,
7The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.
15The people regretted what had happened to Benjamin because the LORD had weakened the Israelite tribes.
14So they traveled on, and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.
36From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.
37Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.
31Some of the descendants of Benjamin settled in Geba, Micmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,
6The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said,“Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!
10So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers from Israel fell in battle.
13The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed.