42 Therefore they¹ turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them, and whoever came out of the cities they destroyed in their midst.  ‡

43 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and easily trampled them down as far as the front of Gibeah toward the east.

45 Then¹ they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of ^aRimmon; and they cut down five thousand of them on the highways. Then they pursued them relentlessly up to Gidom, and killed two thousand of them.  ‡

46 So all who fell of Benjamin that day were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these were¹ men of valor.  ‡