Judges 20:21
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New International Version (©2011)
The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But Benjamin's warriors, who were defending the town, came out and killed 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.

English Standard Version (©2001)
The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed on that day 22,000 men of the Israelites.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then the sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and felled to the ground on that day 22,000 men of Israel.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah and slaughtered 22,000 men of Israel on the field that day.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The descendants of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and 22,000 soldiers of Israel fell in battle that day.

NET Bible (©2006)
The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
That day the men of Benjamin came out from Gibeah. They slaughtered 22,000 of Israel's men.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and cut down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

American King James Version
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

American Standard Version
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa, slew of the children of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men.

Darby Bible Translation
The Benjaminites came out of Gib'e-ah, and felled to the ground on that day twenty-two thousand men of the Israelites.

English Revised Version
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Benjamin came forth from Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

World English Bible
The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.

Young's Literal Translation
and the sons of Benjamin come out from Gibeah, and destroy in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men -- to the earth.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 21. - Came forth out of Gibeah, etc. Gibeah (sometimes called Geba, literally, the hill) was doubtless very difficult to assault, and the steep approach greatly favoured the defenders. The men of Judah probably came up carelessly, and with an overweening confidence, and so met with a terrible disaster. The word destroyed here used is the same as is applied to the destroying angel (Exodus 12:23; 2 Samuel 24:16; see also 2 Chronicles 24:23).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah,.... Which was their place of rendezvous, and which they came to defend; and in and about which they had stationed their whole army of 26,000 men:

and destroyed down to the ground: killed dead upon the spot:

of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men; wanting but 4000 of their whole number, excepting the men of Gibeah, which was such a rebuff the Israelites did not expect, being engaged in so just a cause, and having such a numerous army. Several Jewish, writers (q) think this was on account of their idolatry, that though they were very zealous to revenge corporeal adultery in the case of the Levite's concubine, and to remove such iniquity from Israel; yet were not zealous to revenge and put away spiritual adultery or idolatry in the case of the Danites, who had set up the image of Micah, and so had spread idolatry not only in their own tribe, but throughout Israel; and therefore God took this opportunity to avenge his own quarrel, and rebuke them for their sin; and now did Benjamin raven as a wolf, according to Jacob's prophecy, Genesis 49:27.

(q) T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 103. 2. Pirke Eliezer, c. 28. Jarchi & Kimchi in loc.

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Civil War against Benjamin
…20And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah. 21And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men. 22And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

Judges 20:20 The Israelites went out to fight the Benjamites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.
Judges 20:22 But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.
Judges 20:25 This time, when the Benjamites came out from Gibeah to oppose them, they cut down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
Psalm 78:62 He gave his people over to the sword; he was furious with his inheritance.