Judges 20:42

And began to go towards the way of the desert, the enemy pursuing them thither also. And they that fired the city came also out to meet them.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

In Context

41They that before had made as if they fled, turning their faces stood bravely against them; which the children of Benjamin seeing, turned their backs,

43And so it was, that they were slain on both sides by the enemies, and there was no rest of their men dying. They fell and were beaten down on the east side of the city Gabaa.

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Cross References

Joshua 8:24So all being slain that had pursued after Israel in his flight to the wilderness, and tailing by the sword in the same place, the children of Israel returned and laid waste the city.

Hosea 9:9They have sinned deeply, as in the days of Gabaa: he will remember their iniquity, and will visit their sin.

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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