If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.
Judges 20:47 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But six hundred turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon for four months. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But 600 men turned and fled to the wilderness to the rock Rimmon and remained at the rock Rimmon four months. American Standard Version (1901) But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months. Common English Bible Six hundred men turned back and fled toward the desert to the rock of Rimmon. They stayed at the rock of Rimmon for four months. Catholic Public Domain Version And so there remained from the entire number of Benjamin six hundred men who were able to escape and to flee into the wilderness. And they settled at the rock of Rimmon, for four months. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And there remained of all the number of Benjamin only six hundred men that were able to escape, and flee to the wilderness. And they abode in the rock Remmon four months. |
If the Lord of hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah.
Although our iniquities testify against us, act, O Lord, for your name’s sake; our rebellions indeed are many, and we have sinned against you.
Although he causes grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
O Lord, I have heard of your renown, and I stand in awe, O Lord, of your work. In our own time revive it; in our own time make it known; in wrath may you remember mercy.
The whole land shall be turned into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But Jerusalem shall remain aloft on its site from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the king’s winepresses.
So all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand arms-bearing men, all of them courageous fighters.
Meanwhile, the Israelites turned back against the Benjaminites and put them to the sword—the city, the people, the animals, and all that remained. Also the remaining towns they set on fire.
Then the whole congregation sent word to the Benjaminites who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.