“Binyamin is a wolf that tears, in the morning he eats prey, and at night he divides the spoil.”
Judges 20:21 - The Scriptures 2009 And the children of Binyamin came out of Giḇ‛ah, and on that day cut down to the ground twenty-two thousand men of Yisra’ĕl. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Benjamites came forth out of Gibeah and felled to the ground that day 22,000 men of the Israelites. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible But the Benjaminites marched out from Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelite men that day. Catholic Public Domain Version And the sons of Benjamin, departing from Gibeah, slew twenty-two thousand men from the sons of Israel, on that day. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa, slew of the children of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men. |
“Binyamin is a wolf that tears, in the morning he eats prey, and at night he divides the spoil.”
“And now you are planning to make the children of Yehuḏah and Yerushalayim your male and female slaves, but are you not also guilty before יהוה your Elohim?
The sovereign is not saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
Your way was in the sea, And Your path in the great waters, And Your footsteps were not known.
And He gave His people over to the sword, And He was wroth with His inheritance.
Righteous are You, O יהוה, when I plead with You. Indeed, let me speak with You about right-rulings. Why has the way of the wrong prospered? All the workers of treachery are at ease?
“O Yisra’ĕl, you have sinned from the days of Gib‛ah. There they stood! The battle in Gib‛ah against the children of perversity did not overtake them.
“When the camp goes out against your enemies, then you shall guard yourself from every evil matter.
And the men of Yisra’ĕl went out to battle against Binyamin, and the men of Yisra’ĕl put themselves in battle array to fight against them at Giḇ‛ah.
But the people, the men of Yisra’ĕl, strengthened themselves and again formed the battle line at the place where they had put themselves in array on the first day.
And Binyamin went out against them from Giḇ‛ah on the second day, and cut down to the ground eighteen thousand more of the children of Yisra’ĕl – all these drew the sword.