And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Ver. 35. And the Lord smote Benjamin.] Not the Israelites by their stratagem, but the Lord smote them. Victory is his gift.
“ Vincere quisquis aves hostilem exereitum, age, ante,
Invictum vincas per tua vota Deum. ”