Judges 20:21

Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelites that day.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

In Context

20And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fighting order against them at Gibeah).

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.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:9When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.

2 Chronicles 28:10And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?

Psalms 73:18You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

Ecclesiastes 9:1All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

Hosea 10:9O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.

Matthew Henry on Judges 20:19-26

18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first. 19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. 20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah. 21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and… Read the whole commentary →

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