Judges 20:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.”
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“And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and the sons of Benjamin come out from Gibeah, and destroy in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men--to the earth.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Judges 20:21 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 49:27Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”
- Deuteronomy 23:9When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.
- Judges 20:25That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
- 2 Chronicles 28:10And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
- Psalms 33:16No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
- Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
- Psalms 77:19Your path led through the sea, Your way through the mighty waters, but Your footprints were not to be found.
- Ecclesiastes 9:1So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
- Jeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
- Hosea 10:9Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?
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