On that day the Benjaminites mobilised twenty-six thousand armed men from their cities, besides seven hundred fit young men rallied by the inhabitants of Gibeah.
Then Benjamin turned and fled towards the wilderness to Rimmon Rock, and Israel killed five thousand men on the roads. They overtook them at Gidom and struck two thousand more dead.
Saul responded, ‘Am I not a Benjaminite from the smallest of Israel’s tribes and isn’t my clan the least important of all the clans of the Benjaminite tribe? So why have you said something like this to me? ’