Judges 20:34-36
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
34 There came against Gibeah ten thousand picked men out of all Israel, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was close upon them.
35 The Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel; and the Israelites destroyed twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin that day, all of them armed.
36 Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated.[a]
The Israelites gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted to the troops in ambush that they had stationed against Gibeah.
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- Judges 20:36 This sentence is continued by verse 45.
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