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Judges 20:35

Judges 20:35 is verse 35 of Judges chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

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King James Version

And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

World English Bible

Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men. All these drew the sword.

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Judges 20:33–37 · Berean Standard Bible

33 So all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.

34 Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.

35 The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

36 Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.

37 The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.

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Hebrew words

וַיִּגֹּ֨ףand he defeatedיְהוָ֥הYahwehאֶֽת<obj.>בִּנְיָמִן֮Benjaminלִפְנֵ֣י<to> beforeיִשְׂרָאֵל֒Israelוַיַּשְׁחִיתוּ֩and they destroyedבְנֵ֨י[the] people ofיִשְׂרָאֵ֤לIsraelבְּבִנְיָמִן֙among Benjaminבַּיּ֣וֹםon the dayהַה֔וּא<the> thatעֶשְׂרִ֨יםtwentyוַחֲמִשָּׁ֥הand fiveאֶ֛לֶףthousandוּמֵאָ֖הand one hundredאִ֑ישׁmanכָּלallאֵ֖לֶּהtheseשֹׁ֥לֵף[was] drawingחָֽרֶבa sword

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Judges 20:15

On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.

Judges 20:44

And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.

Judges 20:45

Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.

Judges 20:46

That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.

Job 20:5

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

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