Judges 20:48

Easy To Read Version

The men of Israel went back to the land of Benjamin. They killed the people in every city they came to. They also killed all the animals. They destroyed everything they could find. They burned every city they came to.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 25:13

But at the same time, the Israelite army was attacking some towns in Judah. They attacked the towns from Beth Horon all the way to Samaria. They killed 3,000 people and took many valuable things. \{The people of that army were angry because\} Amaziah didn’t let them join him in the war.

Proverbs 18:19

If you insult your friend, then he will be harder to win back than a city with strong walls. And arguments separate people like palace gates with strong bars across them.

Judges 20:47

But 600 men from Benjamin ran into the desert. They went to the place called the Rock of Rimmon and stayed there for four months.

Judges 21:1

At Mizpah, the men of Israel made a promise. This was their promise: “Not one of us will let his daughter marry a man from the family group of Benjamin.”

Judges 21:23

So that is what the men of the family group of Benjamin did. While the young women were dancing, each man caught one of them. They took those young women away and married them. They went back to their land. The men of Benjamin built cities again in that land, and they lived in those cities.