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Then all the Israelites and the whole people went off to Bethel; they wept and sat in Yahweh's presence; they fasted all day till the evening and presented burnt offerings and communion sacrifices before Yahweh. (Judges 20, 26)
The Israelites then consulted Yahweh. In those days, the ark of the covenant of God was there, (Judges 20, 27)
and Phinehas son of Eleazer, son of Aaron was its minister at the time. They said, 'Ought I to go into battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin again, or should I stop?' Yahweh replied, 'March! For tomorrow I shall deliver him into your hands.' (Judges 20, 28)
On the third day the Israelites marched against the Benjaminites and, as before, drew up their line in front of Gibeah. (Judges 20, 30)
The Benjaminites thought, 'We have beaten them, as we did the first time,' but the Israelites had decided, 'We shall run away and draw them away from the town along the roads.' (Judges 20, 32)
All the Israelites then retreated and reformed at Baal-Tamar, while the Israelite troops in ambush surged from their positions to the west of Gibeah. (Judges 20, 33)
Yahweh defeated Benjamin before Israel and that day the Israelites killed twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them trained swordsmen. (Judges 20, 35)
The Benjaminites saw that they were beaten. The Israelites had given ground to Benjamin, since they were relying on the ambush which they had positioned close to Gibeah. (Judges 20, 36)
Now it had been agreed between the Israelites and those of the ambush that the latter should raise a smoke signal from the town, (Judges 20, 38)
whereupon the Israelites in the thick of the battle would turn about. Benjamin began by killing some of the Israelites, about thirty men, and thought, 'We have certainly beaten them, as we did in the first battle.' (Judges 20, 39)
The Israelites then turned about, and the Benjaminites were seized with terror, for they saw that disaster had struck them. (Judges 20, 41)
They broke before the Israelite onslaught and made for the desert, but the fighters pressed them hard, while the others coming out of the town took and slaughtered them from the rear. (Judges 20, 42)
