OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 43

Judges 20:43

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They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.

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Judges 20:40–46

40

But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and behold, the whole city went up in smoke to the sky.

41

The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.

42

Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the middle of it.

43
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They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.

44

Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.

45

They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them.

46

So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valor.

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