Judges 20:15

And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

In Context

14And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

16Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.

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Cross References

Numbers 1:37Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.

Judges 20:22But the people, the men of Israel, taking heart again, put their forces in order and took up the same position as on the first day.

Judges 20:35Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.

Matthew Henry on Judges 20:13-18

The War with the Benjamites. ( b. c. 1410.) 12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you? 13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel: 14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out… Read the whole commentary →

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