Judges 20:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men of war.

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  • Num 1:46 : 46 Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
  • Num 26:51 : 51 These [were] the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
  • Judg 20:2 : 2 And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
  • 1 Sam 11:8 : 8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
  • 1 Sam 15:4 : 4 And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
  • 1 Chr 21:5 : 5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.
  • 2 Chr 17:14-18 : 14 And these [are] the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand. 15 And next to him [was] Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand. 16 And next him [was] Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour. 17 And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand. 18 And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.

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  • Judg 20:2
    88%

    2And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

  • Judg 20:14-16
    3 verses
    88%

    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

    15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

    16Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair [breadth], and not miss.

  • Judg 20:30-35
    6 verses
    83%

    30And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

    31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, [and] were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

    32And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

    33And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, [even] out of the meadows of Gibeah.

    34And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil [was] near them.

    35And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

  • Judg 20:18-22
    5 verses
    83%

    18¶ And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah [shall go up] first.

    19And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

    20And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

    21And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

    22And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

  • Judg 20:44-48
    5 verses
    83%

    44And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valour.

    45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

    46So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these [were] men of valour.

    47But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.

    48And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of [every] city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

  • 1 Chr 21:5
    82%

    5And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all [they of] Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah [was] four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

  • Judg 20:24-25
    2 verses
    82%

    24And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

    25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • Judg 20:39
    82%

    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as [in] the first battle.

  • 2 Chr 17:17-18
    2 verses
    81%

    17And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand.

    18And next him [was] Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.

  • Num 1:36-37
    2 verses
    80%

    36Of the children of Benjamin, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

    37Those that were numbered of them, [even] of the tribe of Benjamin, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

  • 1 Chr 5:18
    80%

    18¶ The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, [were] four and forty thousand seven hundred and threescore, that went out to the war.

  • 2 Sam 24:9
    80%

    9And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah [were] five hundred thousand men.

  • 1 Chr 12:37
    79%

    37And on the other side of Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all manner of instruments of war for the battle, an hundred and twenty thousand.

  • 2 Chr 14:8
    79%

    8And Asa had an army [of men] that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these [were] mighty men of valour.

  • Judg 20:10-11
    2 verses
    78%

    10And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

    11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

  • Num 2:23
    77%

    23And his host, and those that were numbered of them, [were] thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

  • 1 Sam 11:8
    76%

    8And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

  • 1 Chr 12:24
    75%

    24The children of Judah that bare shield and spear [were] six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    75%

    7Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David, and there was there a great slaughter that day of twenty thousand [men].

  • 1 Chr 7:11
    75%

    11All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, [were] seventeen thousand and two hundred [soldiers], fit to go out for war [and] battle.

  • 1 Kgs 20:15
    75%

    15Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, [even] all the children of Israel, [being] seven thousand.

  • Num 26:41
    75%

    41These [are] the sons of Benjamin after their families: and they that were numbered of them [were] forty and five thousand and six hundred.

  • 1 Sam 4:2
    75%

    2And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: and when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    74%

    17And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

  • 1 Chr 7:9
    74%

    9And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, [was] twenty thousand and two hundred.

  • 1 Kgs 12:21
    74%

    21And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

  • Josh 4:13
    74%

    13About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.

  • 2 Chr 11:1
    73%

    1¶ And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he gathered of the house of Judah and Benjamin an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen [men], which were warriors, to fight against Israel, that he might bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

  • 1 Chr 7:5
    73%

    5And their brethren among all the families of Issachar [were] valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

  • 1 Sam 15:4
    73%

    4And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.