Judges 20:44

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    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).

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

    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.

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    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.

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    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,

    16 Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.

    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.

  • 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.

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    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.

  • 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.

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    17 And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;

    18 And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.

  • 8 And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.

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    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;

    37 Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.

  • 18 There were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty of the sons of Reuben and of the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, all strong men, expert in the use of the body-cover, the sword, and the bow, and in the art of war, all able to take up arms.

  • 30 And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.

  • 41 These are the sons of Benjamin by their families: and those who were numbered of them were forty-five thousand, six hundred.

  • 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.

  • 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.

  • 31 But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 35 And of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand, six hundred, expert in ordering the fight.

  • 29 At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.

  • 10 So the Philistines went to the fight, and Israel was overcome, and every man went in flight to his tent: and great was the destruction, for thirty thousand footmen of Israel were put to the sword.

  • 37 From the other side of Jordan, there were a hundred and twenty thousand of the Reubenites and the Gadites and the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh, armed with every sort of instrument of war.

  • 6 For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 23 The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four hundred.

  • 9 And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.