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31
|Jueces 20:31|
The Benjamites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as before, so that about thirty men fell in the open field and on the roads — the one leading to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
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32
|Jueces 20:32|
While the Benjamites were saying, “We are defeating them as before,” the Israelites were saying, “Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.”
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33
|Jueces 20:33|
All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place on the west of Gibeah.
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34
|Jueces 20:34|
Then ten thousand of Israel’s finest men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realise how near disaster was.
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35
|Jueces 20:35|
The LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and on that day the Israelites struck down 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
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36
|Jueces 20:36|
Then the Benjamites saw that they were beaten. Now the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.
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37
|Jueces 20:37|
The men who had been in ambush made a sudden dash into Gibeah, spread out and put the whole city to the sword.
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38
|Jueces 20:38|
The men of Israel had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
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39
|Jueces 20:39|
and then the men of Israel would turn in the battle. The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the men of Israel (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.”
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40
|Jueces 20:40|
But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the smoke of the whole city going up into the sky.
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