◄ Judges 20:17 ►
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Good News Translation
Not counting the tribe of Benjamin, the Israelites gathered 400,000 trained soldiers.

New Revised Standard Version
And the Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand armed men, all of them warriors.

Contemporary English Version
The other Israelite tribes organized their army and found they had 400,000 experienced soldiers.

New American Bible
The men of Israel, without Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand swordsmen, all of them warriors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the men of Israel also, beside the children of Benjamin, were found four hundred thousand that drew swords and were prepared to fight.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of the men of Israel also, beside the children of Benjamin, were found four hundred thousand that drew swords and were prepared to fight.

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Judges 20:2 And all the chiefs of the people, and all the tribes of Israel, met together in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen fit for war.

Numbers 1:46 Were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty men.

Numbers 26:51 This is the sum of the children of Israel, that were reckoned up, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

1 Samuel 11:8 And he numbered them in Bezec: and there were of the children of Israel three hundred thousand: and of the men of Juda thirty thousand.

1 Samuel 15:4 So Saul commanded the people, and numbered them as lambs: two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand of the men of Juda.

1 Chronicles 21:5 And he gave David the number of them, whom he had surveyed: and all the number of Israel was found to be eleven hundred thousand men that drew the sword: and of Juda four hundred and seventy thousand fighting men.

2 Chronicles 17:14-18 Of whom this is the number of the houses and families of every one: in Juda captains of the army, Ednas the chief, and with him three hundred thousand most valiant men. . . .

Context
The Decree of the Assembly
…16Who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left hand as well as with the right: and slinging stones so sure that they could hit even a hair, and not miss by the stone's going on either side. 17Of the men of Israel also, beside the children of Benjamin, were found four hundred thousand that drew swords and were prepared to fight.
Cross References
Judges 20:16
Who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left hand as well as with the right: and slinging stones so sure that they could hit even a hair, and not miss by the stone's going on either side.

Judges 20:18
And they arose and came to the house of God, that is, to Silo: and they consulted God, and said: Who shall be in our army the first to go to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord answered them: Let Juda be your leader.

Judges 20:16
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