Judges 20:42

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness , but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst .

So they fled before the Israelites in the direction of the wilderness, but they could not escape the battle. And the Israelites who came out of the towns cut them down there.

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.