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Taking the priest, then, with them, and the rest of their plunder aforesaid, the six hundred men reached Lais. There they found all the citizens living at ease, free from alarms, and they put them to the sword, burning down their city. (Judges 18, 27)
There was none to bring aid; they were far from Sidon, and with all the rest of the world fellowship and commerce they had none. It was in Rohob their city lay, and the men of Dan rebuilt it to make their home in it, (Judges 18, 28)
but even as they approached Jebus, night-fall was not far off. Master, the servant said, let us turn aside and find a lodging in this city of the Jebusites. (Judges 19, 11)
So, with one mind and one intent, all Israel made common cause against this city. (Judges 20, 11)
and offered Benjamin battle, making an assault on the city. (Judges 20, 20)
This time, the Israelites hid men in ambush round the city of Gabaa, (Judges 20, 29)
A fresh rout it seemed, but in truth the men of Israel did but feign flight, so as to lure their pursuers down these roads, far away from the city. (Judges 20, 32)
Meanwhile the main body of Israelites had withdrawn from the ground they held, and taken up their stand at a place called Baal-Thamar, but leaving bodies of men in ambush round the city;✻ and these now began to disclose themselves one by one, (Judges 20, 33)
and march on the city from the west. The defenders of the city had been lured out of it by the ten thousand Israelites who came to the attack; so that now things went ill with the army of Benjamin; they were surrounded on all sides unawares. (Judges 20, 34)
This, then, was the way of it.✻ On ran the men of Benjamin, finding the conflict so uneven, and still the Israelites gave ground to them, so that they should fall into the trap which had been set for them round the city. (Judges 20, 36)
Now, on a sudden, while the men of Benjamin thus exposed their rear to attack, the men in ambush rose from their hiding-places, made their way into the city, and put everyone they found there to the sword. (Judges 20, 37)
A signal had been agreed upon between them and the rest of the Israelites; when they had taken the city, they were to make a great fire, whose smoke rolling upwards would announce the capture. (Judges 20, 38)
