'Surprise' in the Bible
So Abimelech and the people with him got up by night, in four bands, to make a surprise attack on Shechem.
So Israel put men secretly all round Gibeah to make a surprise attack on it.
So all the men of Israel got up and put themselves in fighting order at Baal-tamar: and those who had been waiting secretly to make a surprise attack came rushing out of their place on the west of Geba.
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were overcome: and the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, putting their faith in the watchers who were to make the surprise attack on Gibeah.
Now the sign fixed between the men of Israel and those making the surprise attack was that when they made a pillar of smoke go up from the town,