Judges 20:48 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁸ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁸ And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁸ And the men of Israel turned back against the Benjamites and smote them with the sword, men and beasts and all that they found. Also they set on fire all the towns to which they came.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁸ And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

Common English Bible

⁴⁸ But the Israelites turned their attention to the rest of the Benjaminites and massacred them entirely—the city, the people, even the animals, and everything else they found. They also burned down every city they came across.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁸ But the sons of Israel, returning, had struck with the sword all that remained in the city, from men even to cattle. And all the cities and villages of Benjamin were consumed with devouring flames.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁸ But the children of Israel returning put all the remains of the city to the sword, both men and beasts: and all the cities and villages of Benjamin were consumed with devouring flames.

Judges 20:48 Cross References

2 Chronicles 25:13

But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, not letting them go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon; they killed three thousand people in them and took much plunder.

Proverbs 18:19

An ally offended is stronger than a city; such quarreling is like the bars of a castle.

Judges 20:47

But six hundred turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon for four months.

Judges 21:1

Now the Israelites had sworn at Mizpah, “No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.”

Judges 21:23

The Benjaminites did so; they took wives for each of them from the dancers whom they abducted. Then they went and returned to their territory and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.