Judges 20:44

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

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  • Judg 20:45-48
    4 verses
    89%

    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 20:24-25
    2 verses
    85%

    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 20:20-22
    3 verses
    82%

    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 20:30-37
    8 verses
    82%

    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 20:10-17
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    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.”

    11So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies.

    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.

    16Among this army were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target.

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

  • Judg 20:39
    82%

    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.”

  • Judg 20:41-43
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    41When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep.

    42They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down.

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

  • 2 Sam 18:7
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    7The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.

  • 2 Chr 17:17-18
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    17From Benjamin, Eliada, a skilled warrior, led 200,000 men who were equipped with bows and shields,

    18and Jehozabad led 180,000 trained warriors.

  • 2 Chr 14:8
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    8Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah, equipped with large shields and spears. He also had 280,000 men from Benjamin who carried small shields and were adept archers; they were all skilled warriors.

  • Num 1:36-37
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    75%

    36From the descendants of Benjamin: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name.

    37Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.

  • 1 Chr 5:18
    74%

    18The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 men in their combined armies, warriors who carried shields and swords, were equipped with bows, and were trained for war.

  • 1 Chr 12:30
    74%

    30From Ephraim there were 20,800 warriors, who had brought fame to their families.

  • Num 26:41
    73%

    41These are the Benjaminites, according to their families, and according to those numbered of them, 45,600.

  • Judg 8:10
    73%

    10Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed.

  • Judg 20:2
    73%

    2The leaders of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers.

  • 2 Sam 2:31
    72%

    31But David’s soldiers had slaughtered the Benjaminites and Abner’s men– in all, 360 men had died!

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    71%

    17Abijah and his army thoroughly defeated them; 500,000 well-trained Israelite men fell dead.

  • 1 Kgs 20:30
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    30The remaining 27,000 ran to Aphek and went into the city, but the wall fell on them. Now Ben Hadad ran into the city and hid in an inner room.

  • 1 Chr 12:35
    71%

    35From Dan there were 28,600 men prepared for battle.

  • Judg 3:29
    71%

    29That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites– all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

  • 1 Sam 4:10
    71%

    10So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers from Israel fell in battle.

  • 1 Chr 12:37
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    37From the other side of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 men armed with all kinds of weapons.

  • 2 Chr 28:6
    70%

    6In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 warriors in Judah, because they had abandoned the LORD God of their ancestors.

  • Num 2:23
    70%

    23Those numbered in his division are 35,400.

  • 2 Sam 24:9
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    9Joab reported the number of warriors to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.