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23 [a] The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until the evening; and they inquired of the Lord, ‘Shall we again draw near to battle against our kinsfolk the Benjaminites?’ And the Lord said, ‘Go up against them.’

24 So the Israelites advanced against the Benjaminites on the second day. 25 Benjamin moved out against them from Gibeah the second day, and struck down eighteen thousand of the Israelites, all of them armed men.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 20:23 Verses 22 and 23 are transposed

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