Judges 20:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and the sons of Benjamin come out from Gibeah, and destroy in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men -- to the earth.

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  • Judg 20:25 : 25 and Benjamin cometh out to meet them from Gibeah on the second day, and destroy among the sons of Israel again eighteen thousand men -- to the earth; all these are drawing sword.
  • 2 Chr 28:10 : 10 and now, sons of Judah and Jerusalem ye are saying to subdue for men-servants and for maid-servants to you; but are there not with you causes of guilt before Jehovah your God?
  • Ps 33:16 : 16 The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power.
  • Ps 73:18-19 : 18 Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. 19 How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.
  • Ps 77:19 : 19 In the sea `is' Thy way, And Thy paths `are' in many waters, And Thy tracks have not been known.
  • Eccl 9:1-3 : 1 But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them. 2 The whole `is' as to the whole; one event is to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, and to him who is sacrificing, and to him who is not sacrificing; as `is' the good, so `is' the sinner, he who is swearing as he who is fearing an oath. 3 This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.
  • Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous `art' Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.
  • Hos 10:9 : 9 From the days of Gibeah thou hast sinned, O Israel, There they have stood, Not overtake them in Gibeah doth battle, Because of sons of perverseness.
  • Gen 49:27 : 27 Benjamin! a wolf teareth; In the morning he eateth prey, And at evening he apportioneth spoil.'
  • Deut 23:9 : 9 `When a camp goeth out against thine enemies, then thou hast kept from every evil thing.

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  • Judg 20:24-25
    2 verses
    90%

    24And the sons of Israel draw near unto the sons of Benjamin on the second day,

    25and Benjamin cometh out to meet them from Gibeah on the second day, and destroy among the sons of Israel again eighteen thousand men -- to the earth; all these are drawing sword.

  • Judg 20:30-37
    8 verses
    87%

    30and the sons of Israel go up against the sons of Benjamin, on the third day, and arrange themselves against Gibeah, as time by time.

    31And the sons of Benjamin come out to meet the people; they have been drawn away out of the city, and begin to smite `some' of the people -- wounded as time by time, in the highways (of which one is going up to Beth-El, and the other to Gibeah in the field), `are' about thirty men of Israel.

    32And the sons of Benjamin say, `They are smitten before us as at the beginning;' but the sons of Israel said, `Let us flee, and draw them away out of the city, unto the highways.'

    33And all the men of Israel have risen from their place, and arrange themselves at Baal-Tamar, and the ambush of Israel is coming forth out of its place, out of the meadow of Gibeah.

    34And they come in over against Gibeah -- ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel -- and the battle `is' grievous, and they have not known that the evil is striking against them.

    35And Jehovah smiteth Benjamin before Israel, and the sons of Israel destroy in Benjamin, on that day, twenty and five thousand, and a hundred men; all these `are' drawing sword.

    36And the sons of Benjamin see that they have been smitten -- and the men of Israel give place to Benjamin, for they have trusted unto the ambush which they had set against Gibeah,

    37and the ambush have hasted, and push against Gibeah, and the ambush draweth itself out, and smiteth the whole of the city by the mouth of the sword.

  • Judg 20:19-20
    2 verses
    86%

    19And the sons of Israel rise in the morning, and encamp against Gibeah,

    20and the men of Israel go out to battle with Benjamin, and the men of Israel set themselves in array with them, `for' battle against Gibeah,

  • Judg 20:10-15
    6 verses
    82%

    10and we have taken ten men of a hundred, of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of a myriad, to receive provision for the people, to do, at their coming to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly which it hath done in Israel.'

    11And every man of Israel is gathered unto the city, as one man -- companions.

    12And the tribes of Israel send men among all the tribes of Benjamin, saying, `What `is' this evil which hath been among you?

    13And now, give up the men -- sons of worthlessness -- which `are' in Gibeah, and we put them to death, and we put away evil from Israel.' And `the sons of' Benjamin have not been willing to hearken to the voice of their brethren, the sons of Israel;

    14and the sons of Benjamin are gathered out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle with the sons of Israel.

    15And the sons of Benjamin number themselves on that day; out of the cities `are' twenty and six thousand men drawing sword, apart from the inhabitants of Gibeah, `who' numbered themselves, seven hundred chosen men;

  • Judg 20:39-48
    10 verses
    82%

    39And the men of Israel turn in battle, and Benjamin hath begun to smite the wounded among the men of Israel, about thirty men, for they said, `Surely they are utterly smitten before us, as `at' the first battle;

    40and the volume hath begun to go up from the city -- a pillar of smoke -- and Benjamin turneth behind, and lo, gone up hath the perfection of the city toward the heavens.

    41And the men of Israel have turned, and the men of Benjamin are troubled, for they have seen that the evil hath stricken against them --

    42and they turn before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness, and the battle hath followed them; and those who `are' from the city are destroying them in their midst;

    43they have compassed the Benjamites -- they have pursued them -- with ease they have trodden them down till over-against Gibeah, at the sun-rising.

    44And there fall of Benjamin eighteen thousand men -- the whole of these `are' men of valour;

    45and they turn and flee toward the wilderness, unto the rock of Rimmon; and they glean of them in the highways five thousand men, and follow after them unto Gidom, and smite of them two thousand men.

    46And all those falling of Benjamin are twenty and five thousand men drawing sword, on that day -- the whole of these `are' men of valour;

    47and there turn and flee into the wilderness, unto the rock of Rimmon six hundred men, and they dwell in the rock Rimmon four months.

    48And the men of Israel have turned back unto the sons of Benjamin, and smite them by the mouth of the sword out of the city, -- men unto cattle, unto all that is found; also all the cities which are found they have sent into fire.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    79%

    7and smitten there are the people of Israel before the servants of David, and the smiting there is great on that day -- twenty thousand;

  • Judg 20:22
    79%

    22And the people, the men of Israel, strengthen themselves, and add to set the battle in array in the place where they arranged themselves on the first day.

  • Judg 20:17
    78%

    17And the men of Israel numbered themselves, apart from Benjamin, four hundred thousand men, drawing sword, each of these a man of war.

  • Judg 21:10-12
    3 verses
    74%

    10And the company send there twelve thousand men of the sons of valour, and command them, saying, `Go -- and ye have smitten the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead by the mouth of the sword, even the women and the infants.

    11And this `is' the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'

    12And they find out of the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women, virgins, who have not known man by the lying of a male, and they bring them in unto the camp at Shiloh, which `is' in the land of Canaan.

  • Judg 20:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, station themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen drawing sword.

    3And the sons of Benjamin hear that the sons of Israel have gone up to Mizpeh. And the sons of Israel say, `Speak ye, how hath this evil been?'

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    73%

    17and Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

  • Num 2:21
    73%

    21and his host, and their numbered ones, `are' two and thirty thousand, and two hundred.

  • 1 Kgs 20:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29And they encamp one over-against another seven days, and it cometh to pass on the seventh day, that the battle draweth near, and the sons of Israel smite Aram -- a hundred thousand footmen in one day.

    30And those left flee to Aphek, unto the city, and the wall falleth on twenty and seven chief men who are left, and Ben-Hadad hath fled, and cometh in unto the city, into the innermost part.

  • Num 25:9
    73%

    9and the dead by the plague are four and twenty thousand.

  • Judg 21:6
    72%

    6And the sons of Israel repent concerning Benjamin their brother, and say, `There hath been to-day cut off one tribe from Israel,

  • 2 Sam 8:5
    72%

    5And Aram of Damascus cometh to give help to Hadadezer king of Zobah, and David smiteth of Aram twenty and two thousand men;

  • Judg 21:20
    71%

    20And they command the sons of Benjamin, saying, `Go -- and ye have laid wait in the vineyards,

  • Judg 21:16
    71%

    16And the elders of the company say, `What do we do to the remnant for wives -- for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin?'

  • Judg 20:5
    71%

    5and rise against me do the masters of Gibeah -- and they go round the house against me by night -- me they thought to slay, and my concubine they have humbled, and she dieth;

  • Ezra 2:21
    71%

    21Sons of Beth-Lehem, a hundred twenty and three.

  • 1 Kgs 20:15
    71%

    15And he inspecteth the young men of the heads of the provinces, and they are two hundred, two and thirty, and after them he hath inspecteth the whole of the people, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand,

  • Num 1:36
    71%

    36Of the sons of Benjamin -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --