Judges 20:35
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| Overview - Judges 20 | |
| 1 | The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong. |
| 8 | The decree of the assembly. |
| 12 | The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites. |
| 18 | The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand. |
| 26 | They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites, except six hundred. |
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Judges 20:35 (King James Version)
And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
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- Judges 20:15 Judges 20:44-46 ; Job 20:5
- Though the numbers of the Israelites were immensely superior to those of Benjamin, though the stratagem was well laid and ingeniously executed, and the battle bravely fought, yet the inspired historian ascribes the victory to the hand of the Lord, as entirely as if he had smitten the Benjamites by a miracle.