Judges 20:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁶ Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The Israelites gave ground to Benjamin because they relied on the troops in ambush that they had stationed against Gibeah.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ So the Benjamites saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to the Benjamites, because they trusted in the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted unto the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.

Common English Bible

³⁶ Then the Benjaminites saw that they had been defeated. The Israelites had given ground to the Benjaminites because they relied on the ambush that they had set around Gibeah.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ But the sons of Benjamin, when they had seen themselves to be the weaker, began to flee. And the sons of Israel discerning this, gave them room to flee, so that they might arrive at the ambushes that were prepared, which they had positioned near the city.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁶ But the children of Benjamin when they saw themselves to be too weak, began to flee. Which the children of Israel seeing gave them place to flee, that they might come to the ambushes that were prepared, which they had set near the city.

Judges 20:36 Cross References

Judges 20:35

The Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the Israelites struck down twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin that day, all of them armed.