^{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.

^{43 Ref} They enclosed the Benjamites round about, [and] chased them, [and] trod them down at [their] resting-place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrise.

⁴⁴ There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valor.

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

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