* Let us flee.
   This was done, not only because they had placed an ambuscade
   behind Gibeah, which was to enter and burn the city as soon as
   the Benjamites left it; but it would seem, that the slingers,
   by being within the city and its fortifications, had great
   advantage over the Israelites by their slings, when they could
   not come among them with their swords, unless they got them in
   the plain country.

  Jos 8:15,16