The 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.
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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.
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.
30The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.
31The 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.
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.
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.
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.
16Among this army were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target.
17The men of Israel(not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.
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.
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.”
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.
41These are the Benjaminites, according to their families, and according to those numbered of them, 45,600.
19They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.
20Each one struck down an enemy soldier; the Syrians fled and Israel chased them. King Ben Hadad of Syria escaped on horseback with some horsemen.
7The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.
13The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed.
23Those numbered in his division are 35,400.
30The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room.
25The Benjaminites formed their ranks behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill.
21They seized the Hagrites’ animals, including 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took captive 100,000 people.
22Because God fought for them, they killed many of the enemy. They dispossessed the Hagrites and lived in their land until the exile.
17Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.
22When all the Israelites who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, they too pursued them in battle.
31But David’s soldiers had slaughtered the Benjaminites and Abner’s men– in all, 360 men had died!
2The leaders of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.
24When the men of Judah arrived at the observation post overlooking the wilderness and looked at the huge army, they saw dead bodies on the ground; there were no survivors!
20So they commanded the Benjaminites,“Go hide in the vineyards,