^{40 Ref} But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

^{41 Ref} And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: 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 overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.