39 whereupon the men of Israel would turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun [a]to strike and kill about thirty of the men of Israel. For they said, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.” 40 But when the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, the Benjamites (A)looked behind them, and there was the whole city going up in smoke to heaven. 41 And when the men of Israel turned back, the men of Benjamin panicked, for they saw that disaster had come upon them.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 20:39 Lit. to strike the slain ones

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