Judges 20:17

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

16All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

18And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and they said: 'Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?' And the LORD said: 'Judah first.'

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Cross References

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

Judges 20:2And the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly 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 up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword; and Judah was four hundred three-score and ten 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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