^{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 the sky.

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

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