Judges 20:34-36

Expanded Bible

³⁴ Ten thousand of the ·best trained [elite; chosen] soldiers from all of Israel attacked Gibeah. The battle was very hard. The Benjaminites did not know disaster was ·about to come to them [close at hand; ^Ltouching against them]. ³⁵ The Lord ·used the Israelites to defeat the Benjaminites [^Lstruck Benjamin in front of Israel]. On that day the ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel] killed 25,100 Benjaminites, ·all armed with swords [^Lwho drew the sword]. ³⁶ Then the ·Benjaminites [^Lsons/descendants of Benjamin] saw that they were defeated.

The Israelites had ·moved back [retreated] because they were depending on the ·surprise attack [ambush] they had set up near Gibeah [^Cverses 36b–45 now detail the account summarized in verses 29–36a)].