Judges 20:21

And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.

Berean Standard Bible

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 fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.

22But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:9When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.

2 Chronicles 28:10And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Ecclesiastes 9:1So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.

Hosea 10:9Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?

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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