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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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41
|Jueces 20:41|
Then the men of Israel turned on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified, because they realised that disaster had come upon them.
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42
|Jueces 20:42|
So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the desert, but they could not escape the battle. And the men of Israel who came out of the towns cut them down there.
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43
|Jueces 20:43|
They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them and easily overran them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
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44
|Jueces 20:44|
Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters.
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45
|Jueces 20:45|
As they turned and fled towards the desert to the rock of Rimmon, the Israelites cut down five thousand men along the roads. They kept pressing after the Benjamites as far as Gidom and struck down two thousand more.
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