# General Information:
This verse continues to give background information that the writer inserted to explain to the readers how the ambush defeated the Benjamites. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background]])
# would turn from the battle
"would retreat from the fight"
# they are defeated before us
This can be stated in active form. AT: "we have defeated them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])