39 Then the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel, (A)for they said, “Undoubtedly they are [a]defeated before us, as in the first battle.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 20:39 Lit struck

39 and then the Israelites would counterattack.

The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.”(A)

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57 But turned back and (A)acted treacherously like their fathers;
They (B)turned aside like a treacherous bow.

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57 Like their ancestors(A) they were disloyal and faithless,
    as unreliable as a faulty bow.(B)

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