Judges 20:42

Therefore they turned round before the men of Israel unto the way to the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.

Leeser Tanakh

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

41And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed; for they saw that the evil had overtaken them.

43They enclosed the Benjamites round about, chased them, they overtook them in their places of rest, as far as opposite to Gib'ah toward the rising of the sun.

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Cross References

Joshua 8:24And it came to pass, that, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of 'Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they had pursued them, and when they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, All the Israelites returned unto 'Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

Hosea 9:9They are deeply corrupt, as in the days of Gib'ah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

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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