Judges 20:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelites that day.

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  • Judg 20:25 : 25 And the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah, cutting down eighteen thousand men of the children of Israel, all swordsmen.
  • 2 Chr 28:10 : 10 And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?
  • Ps 33:16 : 16 A king's salvation is not in the power of his army; a strong man does not get free by his great strength.
  • Ps 73:18-19 : 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction. 19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.
  • Ps 77:19 : 19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them. 2 Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it. 3 This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
  • Hos 10:9 : 9 O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.
  • Gen 49:27 : 27 Benjamin is a wolf, searching for meat: in the morning he takes his food, and in the evening he makes division of what he has taken.
  • Deut 23:9 : 9 When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.

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  • Judg 20:24-25
    2 verses
    90%

    24 So the children of Israel went forward against the children of Benjamin the second day.

    25 And the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah, cutting down eighteen thousand men of the children of Israel, all swordsmen.

  • Judg 20:30-37
    8 verses
    87%

    30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in fighting order against Gibeah as before.

    31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country.

    32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Israel said, Let us go in flight and get them away from the town, into the highways.

    33 So all the men of Israel got up and put themselves in fighting order at Baal-tamar: and those who had been waiting secretly to make a surprise attack came rushing out of their place on the west of Geba.

    34 And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent; but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.

    35 Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.

    36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were overcome: and the men of Israel had given way before Benjamin, putting their faith in the watchers who were to make the surprise attack on Gibeah.

    37 And the watchers, rushing on Gibeah and overrunning it, put all the town to the sword without mercy.

  • Judg 20:19-20
    2 verses
    86%

    19 So the children of Israel got up in the morning and put themselves in position against Gibeah.

    20 And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fighting order against them at Gibeah).

  • Judg 20:10-15
    6 verses
    82%

    10 And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, a thousand out of every ten thousand, to get food for the people, so that they may give to Gibeah of Benjamin the right punishment for the act of shame they have done in Israel.

    11 So all the men of Israel were banded together against the town, united like one man.

    12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which has been done among you?

    13 Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away the evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not give ear to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.

    14 And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.

    15 And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,

  • Judg 20:39-48
    10 verses
    82%

    39 The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death about thirty of the men of Israel, and were saying, Certainly they are falling back before us as in the first fight.

    40 Then the sign went up out of the town in the pillar of smoke, and the Benjamites, turning back, saw all the town going up in smoke to heaven.

    41 And the men of Israel had made a turn about, and the men of Benjamin were overcome with fear, for they saw that evil had overtaken them.

    42 So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.

    43 And crushing Benjamin down, they went after them, driving them from Nohah as far as the east side of Gibeah.

    44 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin came to their death, all strong men of war.

    45 And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five thousand of them were cut off by the men of Israel, who, pushing on hard after them to Geba, put to death two thousand more.

    46 So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of war.

    47 But six hundred men, turning back, went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land, and were living on the rock of Rimmon for four months.

    48 And the men of Israel, turning again against the children of Benjamin, put to the sword without mercy all the towns and the cattle and everything there was, burning every town which came into their hands.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    79%

    7 And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

  • Judg 20:22
    79%

    22 But the people, the men of Israel, taking heart again, put their forces in order and took up the same position as on the first day.

  • Judg 20:17
    78%

    17 And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.

  • Judg 21:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10 So they (the meeting) sent twelve thousand of the best fighting-men, and gave them orders, saying, Go and put the people of Jabesh-gilead to the sword without mercy, with their women and their little ones.

    11 And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.

    12 Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

  • Judg 20:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.

    3 (Now the children of Benjamin had word that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Make clear how this evil thing took place.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    73%

    17 And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.

  • Num 2:21
    73%

    21 The number of his army was thirty-two thousand, two hundred.

  • 1 Kgs 20:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29 Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day.

    30 But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.

  • Num 25:9
    73%

    9 But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.

  • Judg 21:6
    72%

    6 And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.

  • 2 Sam 8:5
    72%

    5 And when the Aramaeans of Damascus came to the help of Hadadezer, king of Zobah, David put to the sword twenty-two thousand of the Aramaeans.

  • Judg 21:20
    71%

    20 And they said to the men of Benjamin, Go into the vine-gardens, waiting there secretly,

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16 Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?

  • Judg 20:5
    71%

    5 And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it was their purpose to put me to death, and my servant-wife was violently used by them and is dead.

  • Ezra 2:21
    71%

    21 The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred and twenty-three.

  • 1 Kgs 20:15
    71%

    15 Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.

  • Num 1:36
    71%

    36 The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;