³⁹ and then the Israelites would counterattack.

The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.”^(A)

³² While the Benjamites were saying, “We are defeating them as before,”^(A) the Israelites were saying, “Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.”