Judges 20:17

And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

In Context

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

18And the children of Israel arose and went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah first.

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Cross References

Numbers 1:46all they that were numbered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

Judges 20:2And the heads of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the congregation of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

1 Samuel 11:8And he numbered them in Bezek, and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

1 Chronicles 21:5And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David. And all they of Israel were eleven hundred thousand men that drew sword; and of Judah, four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew 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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