^{40 Ref} But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold, the whole of the city went up `in smoke' to heaven.

^{41 Ref} And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil was come upon them.

^{42 Ref} Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and they that came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst thereof.

^{43 Ref} They inclosed the Benjamites round about, `and' chased them, `and' trod them down at `their' resting-place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.

⁴⁴ And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these `were' men of valor.

^{45 Ref} And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.

^{46 Ref} So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these `were' men of valor.