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34 Then ten thousand well-trained[a] men from all Israel came out against Gibeah, and the battle became fierce;[b] they did not know that disaster was about to close in[c] on them. 35 And Yahweh defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and the Israelites[d] destroyed on that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them sword-wielding.[e]

36 The descendants[f] of Benjamin saw that they were defeated, and the men of Israel gave ground[g] to Benjamin because they trusted the ambush that they had set against Gibeah.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 20:34 Or “choice/chosen”
  2. Judges 20:34 Or “the battle became heavy”
  3. Judges 20:34 Literally “touching”
  4. Judges 20:35 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  5. Judges 20:35 Literally “drawing sword”
  6. Judges 20:36 Or “sons/children”
  7. Judges 20:36 Or “a place” or “space”