Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it.
They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon.
They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them.