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bidding them hand over the wanton folk at Gabaa that had been the authors of it, so that their death might rid Israel of a disgrace. But the sons of Benjamin would take no orders from their fellow-Israelites; (Judges 20, 13)
Benjamin then counted twenty-five thousand warriors, apart from the citizens of Gabaa; (Judges 20, 15)
But Israel, without Benjamin, had four hundred thousand warriors under arms, (Judges 20, 17)
and these now mustered at Silo,✻ where they asked divine counsel to know who should lead them into battle against Benjamin; Juda, the Lord told them, is to be your leader. (Judges 20, 18)
and offered Benjamin battle, making an assault on the city. (Judges 20, 20)
Hereupon the men of Benjamin made a sally, and slew, that day, twenty-two thousand Israelites. (Judges 20, 21)
But first they went up to the Lord’s sanctuary and offered, all the long day, their tearful supplications; were they to fight on against their brethren of Benjamin? Go out to meet them, the Lord said, and offer battle. (Judges 20, 23)
and there, too, was Phinees, son to Eleazar that was son of Aaron, in charge of God’s house. And now when they asked the Lord whether they should take the field once more against their brethren of Benjamin, the answer was, Go to the attack; I mean to give you the mastery of them to-morrow. (Judges 20, 28)
the men of Benjamin sallied out more boldly than ever, ready to pursue their adversaries to any distance. Just as on the two earlier days, they began cutting the Israelites down as they ran, some on the road to Bethel, some on the road to Gabaa itself, and about thirty of them fell. (Judges 20, 31)
and march on the city from the west. The defenders of the city had been lured out of it by the ten thousand Israelites who came to the attack; so that now things went ill with the army of Benjamin; they were surrounded on all sides unawares. (Judges 20, 34)
So it was that the Lord struck down Benjamin at the onslaught of the Israelites, who slew that day twenty-five thousand one hundred fighting men, all of them trained to war. (Judges 20, 35)
This, then, was the way of it.✻ On ran the men of Benjamin, finding the conflict so uneven, and still the Israelites gave ground to them, so that they should fall into the trap which had been set for them round the city. (Judges 20, 36)
