Judges 20:45

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The 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.

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  • Josh 15:32 : 32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon– a total of twenty-nine cities and their towns.
  • Judg 21:13 : 13 The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed.
  • 1 Chr 6:77 : 77 The following belonged to the rest of Merari’s descendants: Within the territory of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono and its pasturelands, and Tabor and its pasturelands.
  • Zech 14:10 : 10 All the land will change and become like the rift valley from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be raised up and will stay in its own place from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate and on to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.

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  • 88%

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

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

    48 The 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.

  • 82%

    39 the 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.”

    40 But 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.

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

    42 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.

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

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

  • 81%

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

    31 The 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.

    32 Then 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.”

    33 All 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.

    34 Ten 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.

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

    36 Then 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.

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

  • 81%

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

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

  • 79%

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

    13 Now, 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 78%

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

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

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

  • 10 We 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.”

  • Num 1:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36 From 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.

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

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

  • 73%

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

    20 Each one struck down an enemy soldier; the Syrians fled and Israel chased them. King Ben Hadad of Syria escaped on horseback with some horsemen.

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

  • 13 The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed.

  • 23 Those numbered in his division are 35,400.

  • 30 The 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.

  • 25 The Benjaminites formed their ranks behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill.

  • 71%

    21 They seized the Hagrites’ animals, including 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took captive 100,000 people.

    22 Because God fought for them, they killed many of the enemy. They dispossessed the Hagrites and lived in their land until the exile.

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

  • 22 When 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.

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

  • 2 The 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.

  • 24 When 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!

  • 20 So they commanded the Benjaminites,“Go hide in the vineyards,