Judges 20:24

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Then the Israelites approached the Benjaminites on the second day.

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  • Judg 20:25-36
    12 verses
    86%

    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.

    26 Then all the Israelites, the entire army, went up to Bethel, wept, sat before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening. They offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD.

    27 And the Israelites inquired of the LORD (the Ark of the Covenant of God was there in those days),

    28 and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was ministering before it. They asked, "Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjaminites, our brothers, or shall we stop?" The LORD answered, "Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands."

    29 Then Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

    30 On the third day, the Israelites went up against the Benjaminites and took up their positions against Gibeah, as they had done before.

    31 The Benjaminites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as they had done before—about thirty men—in the open country, on the roads leading to Bethel and Gibeah.

    32 The Benjaminites thought, "We are defeating them as before." But the Israelites said, "Let us retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads."

    33 All the men of Israel rose up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelite ambush broke out of its place west of Gibeah.

    34 Ten thousand of Israel's finest men advanced against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was closing in on them.

    35 The LORD struck down Benjamin before Israel, and the Israelites killed twenty-five thousand one hundred Benjaminites that day, all armed with swords.

    36 Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The Israelites had given ground to the Benjaminites because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:10-15
    6 verses
    82%

    10 We will take ten men out of every hundred, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand across all the tribes of Israel. They will gather provisions for the army, so we can act against Gibeah in Benjamin for their disgraceful act in Israel.

    11 So all the men of Israel were united together as one man against the city.

    12 The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What is this awful crime that has been committed among you?"

    13 Now hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.

    14 Instead, the Benjaminites gathered from their cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the Israelites.

    15 On that day, the Benjaminites mustered twenty-six thousand men armed with swords from their towns, not counting the seven hundred elite troops from Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:17-23
    7 verses
    81%

    17 The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand soldiers armed with swords, all experienced warriors.

    18 The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said, "Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjaminites?" The LORD replied, "Judah shall go first."

    19 The next morning the Israelites got up and camped near Gibeah.

    20 The Israelites went out to fight the Benjaminites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.

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

    22 But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.

    23 The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They asked, "Shall we go up again to wage war against the Benjaminites, our brothers?" The LORD answered, "Go up against them."

  • Judg 20:39
    79%

    39 When the Israelites turned in the battle, the Benjaminites had begun killing about thirty Israelites and thought, 'We are defeating them as in the first battle.'

  • Judg 20:41-46
    6 verses
    75%

    41 Then the Israelites turned on them, and the Benjaminites were terrified because they saw that disaster had overtaken them.

    42 They fled before the Israelites toward the wilderness, but they were overtaken, and those who came out of the cities destroyed them.

    43 They surrounded the Benjaminites, pursued them, and overran them until they were opposite Gibeah on the east side.

    44 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all valiant warriors.

    45 The rest turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, but the Israelites killed five thousand of them along the roads. They pursued them as far as Gidom and struck down another two thousand.

    46 That day, twenty-five thousand sword-wielding men of Benjamin fell, all of them valiant warriors.

  • Judg 20:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 The leaders of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, took their positions in the assembly of the people of God—four hundred thousand soldiers armed with swords.

    3 The people of Benjamin heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. The Israelites said, "Tell us, how did this terrible crime happen?"

  • Judg 20:48
    74%

    48 The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put the cities to the sword, including the people, livestock, and everything they found. They also set fire to all the cities they came upon.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    74%

    16 These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing its banks. They drove out all the people living in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

  • Judg 21:6
    73%

    6 The Israelites grieved for Benjamin, their brother, and said, 'Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.'

  • 2 Sam 2:25
    73%

    25 The men of Benjamin rallied to Abner, formed a single group, and took their stand on the top of a hill.

  • Num 1:36-37
    2 verses
    72%

    36 The descendants of Benjamin were recorded by their generations, by their families, and by their ancestral houses, counting the names of all the males twenty years old or older, all able to serve in the army.

    37 The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.

  • Num 2:22
    71%

    22 Then the tribe of Benjamin. The leader of the descendants of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni.

  • Judg 21:2
    70%

    2 The people went to Bethel, where they stayed until evening weeping loudly before God.

  • Josh 9:17
    70%

    17 So the Israelites set out and on the third day they arrived at the cities of Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

  • 1 Kgs 20:27
    70%

    27 The Israelites were also mustered and supplied with provisions. They went out to meet the Arameans and camped opposite them, appearing like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.

  • Judg 10:9
    70%

    9 The Ammonites also crossed over the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim, and Israel was greatly distressed.

  • Josh 22:12
    70%

    12 When the Israelites heard this, the whole assembly gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.

  • 1 Kgs 20:29
    70%

    29 For seven days, the two armies camped opposite each other. On the seventh day, the battle began, and the Israelites struck down 100,000 Aramean foot soldiers in one day.

  • Judg 1:21
    70%

    21 The Benjaminites, however, did not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived there with the Benjaminites to this day.

  • Judg 21:15
    70%

    15 The people of Israel grieved for Benjamin because the LORD had created a gap in the tribes of Israel.

  • Judg 21:20
    70%

    20 So they instructed the Benjaminites, 'Go and hide in the vineyards.'