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.
"They that came out of the cities, destroyed them in the midst thereof"  (Judges 20:42).  According to the marginal reading this means that, "All who came out of the cities, the men of Israel destroyed." Barnes identified the "cities" here as the cities of the Benjamites which were also ruthlessly liquidated by Israel.