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20 The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they[a] arranged their battle lines against Gibeah. 21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down 22,000 Israelites that day.[b]

22 The Israelite army[c] took heart[d] and once more arranged their battle lines, in the same place where they had taken their positions the day before.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 20:20 tn Heb “the men of Israel.” The noun phrase has been replaced by the pronoun (“they”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  2. Judges 20:21 tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day 22,000 men to the ground.”
  3. Judges 20:22 tn Heb “The people, the men of Israel.”
  4. Judges 20:22 tn Or “encouraged one another.”