Verse 25
Judges 20:25
World English Bible, British Edition
25
Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed
down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men. All these drew the sword.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֵּצֵא֩ בִנְיָמִ֨ן לִ/קְרָאתָ֥/ם מִֽן הַ/גִּבְעָה֮ בַּ/יּ֣וֹם הַ/שֵּׁנִי֒ וַ/יַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩ בִ/בְנֵ֨י יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל ע֗וֹד שְׁמֹנַ֨ת עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֛לֶף אִ֖ישׁ אָ֑רְצָ/ה כָּל אֵ֖לֶּה שֹׁ֥לְפֵי חָֽרֶב
English Translation
And Benjamin went out to meet them from the hilltop on the second day, and the sons of Israel killed again eighteen thousand men of the ground, all these were drawn with the sword.
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Chapter 20 Context
1
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled
as one man, from Dan ev...
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2
The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented
themselves in the assembly...
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3
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone
up to Mizpah.) The children...
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4
The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered,
“I came into Gibeah that belongs to...
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5
The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night.
They intended to kill me and t...
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6
I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all
the country of the inheritanc...
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7
Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and
counsel.”
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8
All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to
his tent, neither will any of us tur...
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9
But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against
it by lot;
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10
and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of
Israel, and one hundred of one...
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11
So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together
as one man.
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12
The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin,
saying, “What wickedness is this th...
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13
Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah,
that we may put them to deat...
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14
The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities
to Gibeah, to go out to batt...
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15
The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities
twenty-six thousand men who drew...
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16
Amongst all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who
were left-handed. Every one of th...
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17
The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand
men who drew sword. All thes...
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18
The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel
of God (Elohim). They asked, “Who...
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19
The children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against
Gibeah.
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20
The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men
of Israel set the battle in array...
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21
The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed
twenty-two thousand of the Is...
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22
The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle
again in array in the place...
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23
The children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening;
and they asked of the LORD, s...
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24
The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin
the second day.
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25
Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed
down to the ground of the...
26
Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up,
and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat th...
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27
The children of Israel asked the LORD (for the ark of the covenant
of God (Elohim) was there in thos...
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28
and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it
in those days), saying, “Shall I...
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29
Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
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30
The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on
the third day, and set themselves...
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31
The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn
away from the city; and they be...
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32
The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before
us, as at the first.” But the children o...
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33
All the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves
in array at Baal Tamar. Then the...
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34
Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah,
and the battle was severe; but t...
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35
The LORD struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel
destroyed of Benjamin that day tw...
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36
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck, for the men
of Israel yielded to Benjamin bec...
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37
The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread
out, and struck all the city...
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38
Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers
was that they should make a great...
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39
The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike
and kill of the men of Israel a...
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40
But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of
smoke, the Benjamites looked beh...
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41
The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for
they saw that disaster had come...
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42
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way
of the wilderness, but the bat...
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43
They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at
their resting place, as far as ne...
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44
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valour.
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45
They turned and fled towards the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon.
They gleaned five thousand men of...
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46
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand
men who drew the sword. All thes...
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47
But six hundred men turned and fled towards the wilderness to the rock
of Rimmon, and stayed in the...
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48
The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck
them with the edge of the swo...
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