Judges 20:21

And the Bnei Binyamin came forth out of Giv'ah, and cut down to the ground that day in Yisroel twenty and two thousand men.

Orthodox Jewish 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 Ish Yisroel went out to battle against Binyamin; and the Ish Yisroel put themselves in array to fight against them at Giv'ah.

22And the HaAm Ish Yisroel took courage, and formed their battle line again in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:9The banim that are begotten of them shall enter into the Kahal Hashem in their third generation.

2 Chronicles 28:10And now ye intend to keep under the Bnei Yehudah and Yerushalayim for avadim and shefachot unto you, but are there not with you, even with you, sins against Hashem Eloheichem?

Psalms 73:18Surely Thou didst set them in slippery places; 1 Thou castedst them down into mashu'ot (ruins, destruction). 1

Ecclesiastes 9:1All this I took to my lev, explaining it all, that the tzaddikim, and the chachamim, and their works, are in the yad HaElohim; adam does not have da'as of whether it will be ahavah or sinah; all lies before him.

Hosea 10:9O Yisroel, thou hast sinned 1 from the yamei Giv'ah; 1 there they have continued. 1 Did not milchamah (war) overtake 1 the bnei alvah (children of unruliness) in Giv'ah? 1

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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