Judges 20:44

And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men: all these, men of valour.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

In Context

43They encompassed the Benjaminites, chased them, trode them down at the resting-place over against Gibeah toward the sun-rising.

45And they turned and fled towards the wilderness to the cliff of Rimmon, and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them to Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

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Cross References

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 20:27-48

The Defeat of the Benjamites. ( b. c. 1410.) 26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the Lord , and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord . 27 And the children of Israel enquired of the Lord , (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, 28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to… Read the whole commentary →

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