35 ¶ And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel, and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites the same day five and twenty thousand and an hundred men: all they could handle the sword.

36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were stricken down: for the men of Israel [a]gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted to the men that lay in wait, which they had laid beside Gibeah.

37 And they that lay in wait hasted, and brake forth toward Gibeah, and the ambushment [b]drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 20:36 Retired to draw them after.
  2. Judges 20:37 Or, made a long sound with a trumpet.

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