Judges 20:37-39

New International Reader's Version

³⁷ Suddenly those men who had been hiding rushed into Gibeah. They spread out. Then they killed everyone in the city with their swords. ³⁸ The Israelites had made a plan with those who had been hiding. They had told them to send up a large cloud of smoke from the city. ³⁹ Then the Israelites would turn around and attack.

The men of Benjamin had begun to wound and kill the men of Israel. They had struck down about 30 of them. They had said, “We’re winning the battle over them, just as we did the first time.”