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Judges 20:21

BenjaminGibeah

19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

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.

22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)

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BSB
And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
KJV
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.
WEB
The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.
ASV
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.
DARBY
And the children of Benjamin went forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty-two thousand men.
BLB
And the sons of Benjamin came out from Gibeah and they destroyed in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men to the ground.
ÅB
Da dro Benjamins barn ut av Gibea og slo den dag to og tyve tusen mann av Israel til jorden.
OTB
Benjaminittene kom ut fra Gibea og slo ned tjue-to tusen israelitter på slagmarken den dagen.
B1930
Da drog Benjamins barn ut av Gibea og slo den dag to og tyve tusen mann av Israel til jorden.

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  • Hosea 10:9

    O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

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  • Jeremiah 12:1

    Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

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  • Judges 20:25

    And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

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  • Psalms 77:19

    Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

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  • Psalms 73:18–19

    Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

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  • Ecclesiastes 9:1–3

    For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

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  • 2 Chronicles 28:10

    And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the LORD your God?

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  • Psalms 33:16

    There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

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