25. And on the second day, the Benjamites went out from Gibeah to meet them and again struck eighteen thousand men down to the ground, every one of them armed.
26. Then all the children of Israel, all the people, went up to Bethel where they wept and sat before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
27. The children of Israel asked the Lord (because the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
28. and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it then), “Should we go out again to wage war with our brother-tribesmen the Benjamites, or should we not?”The Lord said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.”
29. So Israel set an ambushing force around Gibeah.