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Judges 20:32-34
American Standard Version
Judges 20:32-34
American Standard Version
32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways. 33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel brake forth out of their place, even out of [a]Maareh-geba. 34 And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they knew not that evil was [b]close upon them.
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- Judges 20:33 Or, the meadow of Geba (or Gibeah. See verse 10).
- Judges 20:34 Hebrew touching.
Judges 20:32-34
New International Version
Judges 20:32-34
New International Version
32 While the Benjamites were saying, “We are defeating them as before,”(A) the Israelites were saying, “Let’s retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads.”
33 All the men of Israel moved from their places and took up positions at Baal Tamar, and the Israelite ambush charged out of its place(B) on the west[a] of Gibeah.[b] 34 Then ten thousand of Israel’s able young men made a frontal attack on Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that the Benjamites did not realize(C) how near disaster was.(D)
Footnotes
- Judges 20:33 Some Septuagint manuscripts and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Judges 20:33 Hebrew Geba, a variant of Gibeah
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