38. The men of Israel had made an agreement with the ambushing force that when they sent up a large amount of smoke from the city,
39. the children of Israel would turn around in battle.When the Benjamites had begun to strike the children of Israel down, about thirty men, they said, “Surely they are struck down before us like at the beginning.”
40. Yet when the smoke began to rise up from the city in a column, the Benjamites looked behind them and suddenly noticed the whole city going up in smoke to the sky.
41. Then the men of Israel turned around, and the men of Benjamin were horrified because they saw that disaster had come on them.