⁴⁶ On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite^(A) swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters.

⁴⁸ The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.^(A)

¹⁷ Samuel said, “Although you were once small^(A) in your own eyes, did you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The Lord anointed you king over Israel.