21 And the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and slew down to the ground of the Israelites that day [a]two and twenty thousand men.

22 And the people, the men of Israel plucked up their hearts, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put them in array the first day.

23 (For the children of Israel had gone up and wept before the Lord unto the evening, and had asked of the Lord, saying, Shall I go again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brethren? and the Lord said, Go up against them.)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 20:21 This God permitted, because the Israelites partly in their strength, and partly God would by this means punish their sins.

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