Judges 20:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah and struck down on that day twenty-two thousand of the Israelites.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ 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

²¹ The Benjamites came forth out of Gibeah and felled to the ground that day 22,000 men of the Israelites.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ 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

²¹ But the Benjaminites marched out from Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelite men that day.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ 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

²¹ And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa, slew of the children of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men.

Judges 20:21 Cross References

Genesis 49:27

Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil.”

2 Chronicles 28:10

Now you intend to subjugate the people of Judah and Jerusalem, male and female, as your slaves. But what have you except sins against the Lord your God?

Psalm 33:16

A king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.

Psalm 77:19

Your way was through the sea, your path through the mighty waters, yet your footprints were unseen.

Psalm 78:62

He gave his people to the sword and vented his wrath on his heritage.

Jeremiah 12:1

You will be in the right, O Lord, when I lay charges against you, but let me put my case to you. Why does the way of the guilty prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?

Hosea 10:9

Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not war overtake them in Gibeah?

Deuteronomy 23:9

“When you are encamped against your enemies, you shall guard against every evil thing.

Judges 20:20

The Israelites went out to battle against Benjamin, and the Israelites drew up the battle line against them at Gibeah.

Judges 20:25

Benjamin moved out against them from Gibeah the second day and struck down eighteen thousand of the Israelites, all of them armed men.