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.
Armerding explains to us that the RSV avoided the Hebrew word here rendered "inclosed," meaning "surrounded," "On the basis that `surrounded' men are not pursued."[28]  But if the RSV translators had read Josephus they could have spared themselves from making such a blunder.  Josephus tells us that: