Judges 20:31

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And 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.

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  • Josh 7:5 : 5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
  • Josh 8:14-16 : 14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city. 15 And hua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after hua, and were drawn away from the city.
  • Judg 19:13-14 : 13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah. 14 And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.
  • Isa 10:29 : 29 They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

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  • Judg 20:32-48
    17 verses
    86%

    32 And 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.

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

    34 And 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.

    35 And 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.

    36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

    37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

    38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

    39 And 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.

    40 But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

    41 And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

    42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

    43 Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.

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

    45 And 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.

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

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

    48 And 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.

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    29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

    30 And 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.

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

    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.

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

    20 And 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.

    21 And 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.

    22 And 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.

    23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)

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

    25 And 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 20:9-15
    7 verses
    83%

    9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

    10 And 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.

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

    12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

    13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

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

    15 And 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.

  • Judg 20:3-5
    3 verses
    79%

    3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

    4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

    5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

  • 31 But the servants of David had smitten of Benjamin, and of Abner's men, so that three hundred and threescore men died.

  • 16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.

  • 20 Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

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

  • 15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

  • 14 And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them when they were by Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.

  • Num 1:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • 31 The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Beth-el, and in their villages,

  • 6 And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

  • 10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

  • 13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.