44 Eighteen divisions of Benjaminites were wiped out, all their best fighters.
45 Five divisions turned to escape to the wilderness, to Rimmon Rock, but the Israelites caught and slaughtered them on roads.Keeping the pressure on, the Israelites brought down two more divisions.
46 The total of the Benjaminites killed that day came to twenty-five divisions of infantry, their best swordsmen.
47 Six hundred men got away. They made it to Rimmon Rock in the wilderness and held out there for four months.
48 The men of Israel came back and killed all the Benjaminites who were left, all the men and animals they found in every town, and then torched the towns, sending them up in flames.