Judges 20:15

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

Darby Translation

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 gathered themselves together out of the cities of Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

16Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; all these slang stones at a hair [breadth], and missed not.

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Cross References

Numbers 1:37those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

Judges 20:22And the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and set the battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

Judges 20:35And Jehovah smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjaminites that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.

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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