34 And they came over against Gibeah, ten thousand chosen men of all Israel, and the battle was sore: for they knew not that the [a]evil was near them.

35 ¶ And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel, and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites the same day five and twenty thousand and an hundred men: all they could handle the sword.

36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were stricken down: for the men of Israel [b]gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted to the men that lay in wait, which they had laid beside Gibeah.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 20:34 They knew not that God’s judgment was at hand to destroy them.
  2. Judges 20:36 Retired to draw them after.

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