Judges 20:38-40

New Catholic Bible

³⁸ The Israelites had arranged with those who were in ambush that they should raise up flame and a great cloud of smoke from out of the city. ³⁹ The Israelites would then turn around in the battle.

The Benjaminites had begun to overcome and kill the Israelites, about thirty of them, and they were saying to themselves, “Surely we are striking them down before us as we did in the first battle.” ⁴⁰ When the flames and the column of smoke began to rise up out of the city, the Benjaminites looked back and saw flames rising up into the heavens from the city. Read full chapter