So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.
It is amazing that a scholar like Strahan would complain about this paragraph, asserting that, "In  Judges 20:35 the battle is over; and in  Judges 20:36 it begins again"![27]  One wonders if he ever read Sir Walter Scott who was a master of the art of retrogression, a literary device, in which there is a recapitulation of an event with the addition of many significant details.