Judges 20:36

KJV1611 – Modern English

So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave way to the Benjamites, because they trusted to the ambushers which they had set beside Gibeah.

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  • Josh 8:15-29 : 15 And Joshua 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 Joshua and were drawn away from the city. 17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel; and they left the city open and pursued after Israel. 18 And the LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city. 19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand; and they entered into the city and took it and hastened and set the city on fire. 20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way; and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again and slew the men of Ai. 22 And the others issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them so that none of them remained or escaped. 23 And the king of Ai they took alive and brought him to Joshua. 24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they chased them, and when they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. 25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, all the men of Ai. 26 For Joshua did not draw his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua. 28 And Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation to this day. 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening; and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones, that remains to this day.

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  • Judg 20:37-48
    12 verses
    88%

    37And the ambushers hastened, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the ambushers drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

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

    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.

    40But when the flame began to rise 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.

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

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

    43Thus they enclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trampled them down easily against Gibeah toward the sunrise.

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

    45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to 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 who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

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

    48And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the men of every city, and the beasts, and all that came to hand; also they set on fire all the cities they came to.

  • Judg 20:29-35
    7 verses
    82%

    29And Israel set ambushers round about Gibeah.

    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 strike of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes 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 struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city to the highways.

    33And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar; and the ambushers 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 heavy; but they did not know that disaster was near them.

    35And the LORD struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men; all these drew the sword.

  • Judg 20:9-22
    14 verses
    79%

    9But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up by lot against it;

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

    11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united as one.

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

    13Now therefore deliver up the men, the worthless fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and remove evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not listen to their brothers, the children of Israel.

    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to 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-six thousand men who drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered seven hundred chosen men.

    16Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair's breadth, and not miss.

    17And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword; all these were men of war.

    18And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Who 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 set themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

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

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

  • Judg 20:24-25
    2 verses
    78%

    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 21:20
    77%

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

  • Judg 20:3
    75%

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

  • Judg 21:15
    73%

    15And the people felt sorry for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

  • 1 Sam 14:16
    73%

    16The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude melted away, and they went here and there.

  • Judg 20:5
    72%

    5And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night, and thought to have killed me; and my concubine they forced, that she is dead.

  • Judg 19:16
    72%

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

  • Hos 10:9
    72%

    9O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

  • 2 Sam 2:25
    71%

    25And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner, and became one group, and stood on the top of a hill.

  • Num 1:36
    71%

    36From the children of Benjamin, by their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war;

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    71%

    16Then some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David at the stronghold.

  • Judg 21:6
    71%

    6And the children of Israel felt sorry for Benjamin their brother, and said, Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.

  • Judg 19:14
    71%

    14So they passed on and went their way, and the sun went down upon them when they were near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

  • Neh 11:31
    70%

    31The children also of Benjamin from Geba lived at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,

  • 2 Chr 13:16
    70%

    16And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    70%

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