Judges 20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Judges 20The Other Tribes Attack Benjamin

1 against it by lot.

10We will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the troops who will go to repay Gibeah of Benjamin for all the disgrace that they have done in Israel.”

11So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one.

12 The Israelites strengthened themselves and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.

24So the Israelites advanced against the Benjaminites the second day.

25 of Geba.

34 were striking them down in between.

43Surrounding the Benjaminites, they pursued them from Nohah and trod them down as far as a place east of Gibeah.

44Eighteen thousand Benjaminites fell, all of them courageous fighters.

45Judg 21.13When they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, five thousand of them were cut down on the main roads, and they were pursued as far as Gidom, and two thousand of them were slain.

46So all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand arms-bearing men, all of them courageous fighters.

47Judg 21.13But six hundred turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon for four months.

48Meanwhile, the Israelites turned back against the Benjaminites and put them to the sword—the city, the people, the animals, and all that remained. Also the remaining towns they set on fire.

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