Judg 20:28-33 | ESV | STEP | and Phinehas the son of Eleazar , son of Aaron , ministered before it in those days ), saying , Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers , the people of Benjamin , or shall we cease ? And the Lord said , Go up , for tomorrow I will give them into your hand .

Judges 20:28-33

28 and ^aPhinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ^bministered before it in those days), saying, “Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers, the people of Benjamin, or shall we cease?” And the Lord said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.”

29 ^cSo Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah. 30 And the people of Israel went up against the people of Benjamin on the third day and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times. 31 And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, ^done of which goes up to ^eBethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel. 32 And the people of Benjamin said, ^f“They are routed before us, as at the first.” But the people of Israel said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.” 33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar, and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place from Maareh-geba. ^{▼▼Some Septuagint manuscripts place west of Geba}