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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)
Now, on a sudden, while the men of Benjamin thus exposed their rear to attack, the men in ambush rose from their hiding-places, made their way into the city, and put everyone they found there to the sword. (Judges 20, 37)
the rest of Benjamin, after witnessing their defeat, escaped into the desert, and made for the rock that is called Remmon. Even in that flight, straggling and scattered, five thousand met their death; and another two thousand were killed by the pursuers as they tried to go further afield. (Judges 20, 45)
Thus twenty-five thousand sons of Benjamin perished, some here, some there, all of them warriors trained to battle. (Judges 20, 46)
Meanwhile the Israelites went back and put all that was left in the city, man and beast, to the sword; and busy flames devoured every city and township in the lands of Benjamin. (Judges 20, 48)
This, too, was part of the oath which the Israelites took at Maspha, that none of them would wed his daughter to a man of Benjamin’s race. (Judges 21, 1)
Lord God of Israel, they cried, what curse is this that has fallen on thy people, that a whole tribe of us should disappear? (Judges 21, 3)
But when, in remorse over their Benjamite brethren, they fell to lamenting over the loss of a whole tribe to Israel, (Judges 21, 6)
Still the whole of Israel was full of remorse, grieving over a tribe lost to Israel; (Judges 21, 15)
and Israel must not lose a tribe, if care or thought of ours can prevent it. (Judges 21, 17)
