Verse 21

The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 20:25 : 25 On the second day, the Benjaminites came out from Gibeah to meet the Israelites and struck down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
  • 2 Chr 28:10 : 10 And now you intend to enslave the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But aren’t you also guilty of sins against the LORD your God?
  • Ps 33:16 : 16 A king is not saved by a large army; a warrior will not be delivered by great strength.
  • Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Surely, You place them on slippery ground; You cast them down to destruction. 19 How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!
  • Ps 77:19 : 19 Your thunder echoed in the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 So I reflected on all this and set my heart to examine it: that the righteous, the wise, and their deeds are in the hand of God. People do not know whether love or hatred awaits them; everything lies before them. 2 Everything happens alike to everyone: the same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the pure and the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As with the good person, so with the sinner; as with those who swear oaths, so with those who avoid them. 3 This is the distressing thing about everything that happens under the sun: the same fate befalls all. Moreover, the hearts of humans are full of evil, and madness resides in their hearts during their lives; and after that, they join the dead.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 You are righteous, LORD, even when I bring my case to you. Yet I want to discuss your judgments: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those who betray others at ease?
  • Hos 10:9 : 9 From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there they have remained. Will not war overtake them in Gibeah because of their wickedness?
  • Gen 49:27 : 27 Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.
  • Deut 23:9 : 9 The children born to them in the third generation may enter the assembly of the LORD.