Judges 20:37
And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
The hidden ambush force hasted, rushed upon Gibeah, drew themselves along through the city, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword. It belongs to the account of Gibeah's crime following the murder of the Levite's concubine and Israel's response, in which the whole tribe of Benjamin identified itself with the people of Gibeah. It records Israel's eventual victory over Benjamin after suffering two humiliating defeats. The civil war including the destruction of Gibeah nearly wiped out Benjamin and left it the least and nearly extinct tribe.
It stands in the closing chapters of Judges, which record Israel's backsliding and low moral state with the disgrace and punishment that followed, just before the call of Samuel the prophet. Because Benjamin had been reduced to the least tribe through this civil war, God chose Israel's first king from that tribe so the other tribes would have no ground for jealousy. It shows that a cause may suffer setbacks and appear close to destruction before it turns to success.