Judges 20:29-48
29 aSo Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah. 30And 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. 31And 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, bone of which goes up to cBethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel. 32And the people of Benjamin said, d“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.” 33And 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
34And there came against Gibeah 10,000 chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard, fbut the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them. 35And the Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men who gdrew the sword. 36So the people of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah. 37 hThen the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and struck all the city with the edge of the sword. 38Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in the main ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city 39the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel. They said, i“Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.” 40But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, jthe whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven. 41Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, kfor they saw that disaster was close upon them. 42Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in lthe direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst. 43Surrounding the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah ▼
▼Septuagint; Hebrew [at their] resting place
as far as opposite Gibeah on the east. 44Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor. 45And they turned nand fled toward the wilderness to the rock of oRimmon. Five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways. And they were pursued hard to Gidom, and 2,000 men of them were struck down. 46So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,000 men who drew the sword, all of them men of valor. 47But 600 men turned and pfled toward the wilderness to the rock of qRimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months. 48And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire. 2 Samuel 17:2
2I will come upon him while he is rweary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people who are with him will flee. sI will strike down only the king,Psalms 56:6
6They tstir up strife, they ulurk;they vwatch my steps,
as they have waited for my life.
Isaiah 47:11
11But evil shall come upon you,which you will not know how to charm away;
disaster shall fall upon you,
for which you will not be able to atone;
wand ruin shall come upon you suddenly,
of which you know nothing.
Acts 23:12
A Plot to Kill Paul
12When it was day, xthe Jews made a plot and ybound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.Acts 23:21
21But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who zhave bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.”1 Thessalonians 5:2
2For you yourselves are fully aware that aathe day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
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