Judges 20:40-42

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁴⁰ But when the [signal] cloud began to rise out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to the heavens.

⁴¹ When the men of Israel turned back again, the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster had come upon them.

⁴² Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel and fled toward the wilderness, but the battle followed close behind and overtook them; and the inhabitants of the cities destroyed those [Benjamites] who came through them in their midst.