Quotes about Benjamites
Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
- Judges 20:34
Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
- Judges 20:36
the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
- Judges 20:39
But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.
- Judges 20:40
They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
- Judges 20:43
And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
- Judges 20:44
Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
- Judges 20:45
And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
- Judges 21:6
Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.
- Judges 21:13
And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
- Judges 21:14
So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards
- Judges 21:20
The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
- Judges 21:23