^{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.

^{43 Ref} Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease 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 pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

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