Judges 20:42

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They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 8:15 : 15 Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the wilderness.
  • Josh 8:24 : 24 When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had chased them toward the wilderness(they all fell by the sword), all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.
  • Lam 1:3 : 3 ג(Gimel) Judah has departed into exile under affliction and harsh oppression. She lives among the nations; she has found no resting place. All who pursued her overtook her in narrow straits.
  • Hos 9:9 : 9 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times They have sunk deep into corruption as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their wrongdoing. He will repay them for their sins.
  • Hos 10:9 : 9 Failure to Learn from the Sin and Judgment of Gibeah O Israel, you have sinned since the time of Gibeah, and there you have remained. Did not war overtake the evildoers in Gibeah?

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  • Judg 20:39-41
    3 verses
    84%

    39the Israelites counterattacked. Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; they struck down about thirty men. They said,“There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”

    40But when the signal, a pillar of smoke, began to rise up from the city, the Benjaminites turned around and saw the whole city going up in a cloud of smoke that rose high into the sky.

    41When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep.

  • Judg 20:43-48
    6 verses
    82%

    43They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, and annihilated them all the way to a spot east of Geba.

    44Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.

    45The rest turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites caught five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

    46That day twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.

    47Six hundred survivors turned and ran away to the wilderness, to the cliff of Rimmon. They stayed there four months.

    48The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path.

  • Judg 20:30-37
    8 verses
    81%

    30The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

    31The Benjaminites attacked the army, leaving the city unguarded. They began to strike down their enemy just as they had done before. On the main roads(one leads to Bethel, the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down about thirty Israelites.

    32Then the Benjaminites said,“They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said,“Let’s retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads.”

    33All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.

    34Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah– the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep.

    35The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.

    36Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.

    37The men hiding in ambush made a mad dash to Gibeah. They attacked and put the sword to the entire city.

  • Judg 20:19-22
    4 verses
    79%

    19The Israelites got up the next morning and moved against Gibeah.

    20The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.

    21The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.

    22The Israelite army took heart and once more arranged their battle lines, in the same place where they had taken their positions the day before.

  • Judg 20:24-25
    2 verses
    79%

    24So the Israelites marched toward the Benjaminites the next day.

    25The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.

  • Judg 20:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    12The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying,“How could such a wicked thing take place?

    13Now, hand over the good-for-nothings in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.

    14The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.

    15That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.

  • Josh 8:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20When the men of Ai turned around, they saw the smoke from the city ascending into the sky and were so shocked they were unable to flee in any direction. In the meantime the men who were retreating to the wilderness turned against their pursuers.

    21When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the city was going up in smoke, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.

    22At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.

  • Josh 8:15
    74%

    15Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the wilderness.

  • 1 Sam 14:22
    73%

    22When all the Israelites who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, they too pursued them in battle.

  • Judg 20:17
    72%

    17The men of Israel(not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.

  • Judg 6:4
    72%

    4They invaded the land and devoured its crops all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, and they took away the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

  • Judg 21:15
    72%

    15The people regretted what had happened to Benjamin because the LORD had weakened the Israelite tribes.

  • Josh 11:8
    72%

    8The LORD handed them over to Israel and they struck them down and chased them all the way to Greater Sidon, Misrephoth Maim, and the Mizpah Valley to the east. They struck them down until no survivors remained.

  • Judg 2:15
    72%

    15Whenever they went out to fight, the LORD did them harm, just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. They suffered greatly.

  • Judg 20:10
    72%

    10We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel(and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.”

  • 2 Chr 13:16
    72%

    16The Israelites fled from before the Judahite army, and God handed them over to the men of Judah.

  • 1 Kgs 20:19
    72%

    19They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

  • 2 Kgs 3:24
    71%

    24When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites thoroughly defeated Moab.

  • Josh 8:17
    71%

    17No men were left in Ai or Bethel; they all went out after Israel. They left the city wide open and chased Israel.

  • Josh 7:12
    71%

    12The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. I will no longer be with you, unless you destroy what has contaminated you.

  • Judg 19:14
    71%

    14So they traveled on, and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.

  • 2 Chr 20:24
    71%

    24When the men of Judah arrived at the observation post overlooking the wilderness and looked at the huge army, they saw dead bodies on the ground; there were no survivors!

  • Num 31:10
    71%

    10They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

  • Josh 10:20
    71%

    20Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.