Quotes about Battle
“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
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
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
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 in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.
- Judges 20:37
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
Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.
- Judges 20:41
So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
- Judges 20:42
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
That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
- Judges 20:46