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So all the men of Israel rose from their place and put themselves in battle array at Baal Tamar .
Then Israel '
s men in ambush burst forth from their position in the plain of Geba .
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And ten thousand select men from all Israel came against Gibeah ,
and the battle was fierce .
But the Benjamites did not know that disaster was upon them .
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The LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel .
And the children of Israel destroyed that day twenty-five thousand one hundred Benjamites ;
all these drew the sword .
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So the children of Benjamin saw that they were defeated .
The men of Israel had given ground to the Benjamites ,
because they relied on the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah .
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And the men in ambush quickly rushed upon Gibeah ;
the men in ambush spread out and struck the whole city with the edge of the sword .
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Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that they would make a great cloud of smoke rise up from the city ,
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whereupon the men of Israel would turn in battle .
Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty of the men of Israel .
For they said , "
Surely they are defeated before us ,
as in the first battle ."
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But when the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke ,
the Benjamites looked behind them ,
and there was the whole city going up in smoke to heaven .
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And when the men of Israel turned back ,
the men of Benjamin panicked ,
for they saw that disaster had come upon them .
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Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness ;
but the battle overtook them ,
and whoever came out of the cities they destroyed in their midst .
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They surrounded the Benjamites ,
chased them ,
and easily trampled them down as far as the front of Gibeah toward the east .