Lexham English Bible

Judges 20:43-48 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

43. They surrounded Benjamin; they pursued them without rest and trod them down opposite Gibeah to the east.

44. And eighteen thousand men from Benjamin fell, all of them able men.

45. And they turned and fled toward the wilderness, to the rock of Rimmon, but they cut down on the main roads five thousand men; and they pursued after them up to Gidom, and they struck down two thousand men.

46. So all of Benjamin who fell on that day were twenty-five thousand sword-wielding men; all of these were able men.

47. But six hundred turned and fled toward the wilderness, to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon for four months.

48. And the men of Israel returned to the descendants of Benjamin, and they put them to the edge of the sword, both the inhabitants of city and the animals that were found; they also set on fire all the cities that they found.