Judges 20:17

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 lame in the right hand: every one of these could sling a stone at a hair, and would not miss.

18And they arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and the children of Israel said, Who of us shall go up at first to the battle with the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah, at first.

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Cross References

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

Judges 20:2and there presented themselves the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand men on foot that drew the 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 number of the people unto David: and there were [in] all Israel a thousand times thousand and one hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and [of] Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew the 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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