Graphic Bible · Scene 6 of 10
Judges 20:19-25
Two defeats
War with Benjamin · Judges 20
Open this scene in the reader →19Then the sons of Israel rose in the morning and camped against Gibeah.
20The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel drew up for battle against them at Gibeah.
21Then the sons of Benjamin came out from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand men of Israel that day.
22But the people, the men of Israel, strengthened themselves and again drew up for battle in the place where they had drawn up on the first day.
23Then the sons of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening, and they inquired of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I continue to go near for battle with the sons of Benjamin, my brother?” And Yahweh said, “Go up against him.”
24And the sons of Israel came near to the sons of Benjamin on the second day.
25Benjamin came out from Gibeah to meet them on the second day, and they struck down another eighteen thousand men of Israel to the ground; all these were drawing the sword.
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