Judges 20:43

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Josh 8:20-22 : 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.

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  • Judg 20:29-42
    14 verses
    80%

    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.

    36So 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.

    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.

  • Judg 20:24-25
    2 verses
    80%

    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 20:44-48
    5 verses
    79%

    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 20:19-22
    4 verses
    78%

    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 20:9-15
    7 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Judg 19:14
    76%

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

  • 2 Sam 2:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24Joab also and Abishai pursued Abner: and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, that is before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

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

  • Judg 20:5
    71%

    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 20:17
    70%

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

  • Josh 18:20
    70%

    20And Jordan was its border on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, according to its boundaries all around, by their families.

  • Judg 20:3
    70%

    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 21:20
    69%

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

  • Judg 19:16
    69%

    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.

  • Num 1:36-37
    2 verses
    68%

    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;

    37Those who were numbered from them, even from the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty-five thousand four hundred.

  • Josh 10:10
    68%

    10And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel and killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, chased them along the road that goes to Beth Horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

  • 1 Chr 12:15-16
    2 verses
    68%

    15These are the ones who crossed over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its banks; and they put to flight all those in the valleys, to the east and to the west.

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

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    68%

    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.

  • Judg 21:13
    68%

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

  • 1 Sam 14:16
    68%

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

  • 2 Sam 2:31
    68%

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