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Israel's Civil War Against Benjamin: Justice, Judgment, and Near Tribal Ruin
Judges 20 moves from shocked national unity over Gibeah's outrage, through Benjamin's refusal to give up the guilty, through repeated defeat and intensified seeking of the LORD, into divinely granted victory that becomes catastrophic civil war and leaves Benjamin almost extinguished.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
15On that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
16Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
17The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.
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