Quotes about Warfare
Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
- Judges 20:16
And the Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down 22,000 Israelites on the battlefield that day.
- Judges 20:21
On the second day the Israelites advanced against the Benjamites.
- Judges 20:24
That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.
- Judges 20:25
So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.
- Judges 20:29
On the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.
- Judges 20:30
“We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
- Judges 20:32
The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.
- Judges 20:35
The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.
- Judges 20:37
The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
- Judges 20:38
And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
- Judges 20:44
And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
- Judges 20:48