Judges 20:32

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Benjaminites said, ‘We are defeating them as before.’ But the Israelites said, ‘Let’s flee and draw them away from the city to the roads.’

Cross References

Joshua 8:5

Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.

Judges 20:31

Then the Benjaminites came out against the troops and were drawn away from the city.  They began to attack the troops as before, killing about thirty men of Israel on the roads, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah through the open country.

Judges 20:33

So all the men of Israel got up from their places and took their battle positions at Baal-tamar, while the Israelites in ambush charged out of their places west of  Geba.

Judges 20:39

the men of Israel would return to the battle. When Benjamin had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, ‘They’re defeated before us, just as they were in the first battle.’

Joshua 8:6

They will come after us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, “They are fleeing from us as before.” While we are fleeing from them,