44. So 18,000 brave and strong Benjaminite fighters were killed.
45. The Benjaminites ran toward the desert. They ran to a place called the rock of Rimmon. But the Israelites killed 5,000 Benjaminites along the roads. They kept chasing them as far as a place named Gidom. And they killed 2,000 more Benjaminites there.
46. On that day 25,000 Benjaminites were killed. All of them had fought bravely with swords.
47. But 600 Benjaminites ran to the rock of Rimmon in the desert. They stayed there for four months.
48. Then the men of Israel went back to the land of Benjamin. They killed the people in every city. They also killed the animals. They destroyed everything they could find. And they burned every city they found.