Judges 20:21

The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and they killed twenty-two thousand men of the army of Israel on that day.

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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

20The people of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin. They set up their battle positions against them at Gibeah.

22But the people of Israel strengthened themselves and they formed the battle line in the same place where they had taken positions on the first day.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 23:9When you march out as an army against your enemies, then you must keep yourselves from every evil thing.

2 Chronicles 28:10Now you intend to keep the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem as your slaves. But are you not guilty of sins of your own against Yahweh your God?

Psalms 73:18Surely you put them in slippery places; 1 you bring them down to ruin. 1

Ecclesiastes 9:1For I thought about all this in my mind to understand about the righteous and wise people and their deeds. They are all in God's hands. No one knows whether love or hate will come to someone. 1

Hosea 10:9“Israel, 1 you have sinned since the days of Gibeah; 1 there you have remained. 1 Will not war overtake the sons of wrong in Gibeah? 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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