²³ So that is what the Benjamites did. While the young women were dancing,^(A) each man caught one and carried her off to be his wife. Then they returned to their inheritance^(B) and rebuilt the towns and settled in them.^(C)

⁴⁸ The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.^(A)