Judges 20:36-38

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁶ Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated.^[a]

The Israelites gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted to the troops in ambush that they had stationed against Gibeah. ³⁷ The troops in ambush rushed quickly upon Gibeah. Then they put the whole city to the sword. ³⁸ Now the agreement between the main body of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they sent up a cloud of smoke out of the city