The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Judges 20:41 (NASB)
[SUP]41 [/SUP] Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified; for they saw that disaster was close to them.

 

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Judges 20:42
King James Version(KJV)

42.)Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:43, "They surrounded the Binyamites and pursued them, and with ease trampled them down as far as the front of Giḇ‛ah toward the east."

 

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Judges 20:44 (KJV)
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:45, "And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. And they cut down five thousand of them on the highways, and followed after them up to Giḏom, and smote two thousand of them."

 

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Judges 20:46
New International Version (NIV)

On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:47, "But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and they dwelt at the rock of Rimmon for four months."

 

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Judges 20:48 (NASB)
[SUP]48 [/SUP] The men of Israel then turned back against the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.

 

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Judges 21:1 (ERV)
Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 21:2, "So the people came to Bĕyth Yl, and sat there until evening before Yah, and lifted up their voices and wept bitterly."

 

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Judges 21:3
New International Version (NIV)

“LORD, God of Israel,” they cried, “why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing from Israel today?”

 

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Judges 21:4 (NASB)
[SUP]4 [/SUP] It came about the next day that the people arose early and built an altar there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

 

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Judges 21:5 (ERV)
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto the LORD to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

 

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Judges 21:6 (NASB)
[SUP]6 [/SUP] And the sons of Israel were sorry for their brother Benjamin and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel today.

 

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Judges 21:7
New International Version (NIV)

“How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the LORD not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?”

 

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Judges 21:8
King James Version(KJV)

8.)And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

 

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Judges 21:9 (ERV)
For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

 

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Judges 21:10 (NASB)
[SUP]10 [/SUP] And the congregation sent 12,000 of the valiant warriors there, and commanded them, saying, "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

 

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Judges 21:11 (KJV)
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

 

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Judges 21:12
New International Version (NIV)

They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh in Canaan.