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Judges Chapter 20

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In chapter 20 the Israelites relapse into idolatry after a time of peace and Gideon’s victory over the Midianites, which he accomplishes through divine guidance. The chapter shows that even great victories cannot replace true repentance and faithful obedience to God.

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(1) Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
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Judges 20:2Judges 20:8Judges 20:11Judges 21:5Deuteronomy 13:12Deuteronomy 13:13Deuteronomy 13:14Deuteronomy 13:15Deuteronomy 13:16Deuteronomy 13:17Deuteronomy 13:18Joshua 22:12

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Judges 11:29Joshua 19:47Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Judges 10:17Judges 12:4

(2) And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
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Judges 20:15Judges 20:17Judges 8:10II Samuel 24:9II Kings 3:26

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Ezekiel 48:16Exodus 25:26Exodus 37:13I Chronicles 21:5Ezekiel 1:10Revelation 7:1

(3) (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?
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Proverbs 22:3Matthew 5:25Luke 12:58Luke 12:59Luke 14:31Luke 14:32Judges 19:22Judges 19:23Judges 19:24Judges 19:25Judges 19:26Judges 19:27

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Jeremiah 44:9

(4) And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
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Judges 19:15Judges 19:16Judges 19:17Judges 19:18Judges 19:19Judges 19:20Judges 19:21Judges 19:22Judges 19:23Judges 19:24Judges 19:25Judges 19:26

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Romans 7:2Judges 20:5Ezekiel 32:25Judges 19:14

(5) And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
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Judges 19:22Genesis 19:4Genesis 19:5Genesis 19:6Genesis 19:7Genesis 19:8Judges 19:25Judges 19:26Deuteronomy 22:24Ezekiel 22:10Ezekiel 22:11

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Ezekiel 32:25Judges 19:9Judges 19:10Judges 20:4I Kings 6:5Ezekiel 46:23

(6) And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
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Judges 19:29Judges 20:10Judges 19:23Genesis 34:7Joshua 7:15II Samuel 13:12II Samuel 13:13

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Numbers 33:54Numbers 36:3Numbers 36:4Ezekiel 47:22Isaiah 8:9Jeremiah 51:22

(7) Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
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Exodus 19:5Exodus 19:6Deuteronomy 4:6Deuteronomy 14:1Deuteronomy 14:2I Corinthians 5:1I Corinthians 5:6I Corinthians 5:10I Corinthians 5:11I Corinthians 5:12Judges 19:30Joshua 9:14

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Isaiah 22:16II Samuel 17:14

(8) And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.
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Judges 20:1Judges 20:11Judges 21:1Judges 21:5Proverbs 21:3Ecclesiastes 9:10

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Genesis 31:33Numbers 19:14Judges 4:18Ezekiel 33:11

(9) But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;
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Joshua 14:2I Samuel 14:41I Samuel 14:42I Chronicles 24:5Nehemiah 11:1Proverbs 16:33Jonah 1:7Acts 1:26

(10) And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
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I Kings 11:31Genesis 32:15Genesis 45:23Exodus 27:12Exodus 38:12Joshua 22:14

(11) So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(12) And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
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Deuteronomy 13:14Deuteronomy 20:10Joshua 22:13Joshua 22:14Joshua 22:15Joshua 22:16Matthew 18:15Matthew 18:16Matthew 18:17Matthew 18:18Romans 12:18

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Jeremiah 44:9Joshua 21:4I Chronicles 6:65Revelation 7:8Joshua 21:6I Chronicles 6:62

(13) Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:
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II Samuel 20:21II Samuel 20:22Judges 19:22Deuteronomy 13:13I Samuel 30:22II Samuel 20:1II Samuel 23:6I Kings 21:13II Chronicles 13:7Deuteronomy 17:7Deuteronomy 17:12Deuteronomy 19:19

(14) But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
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Numbers 20:20Numbers 21:23II Chronicles 13:13Job 15:25Job 15:26

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32I Samuel 17:1I Chronicles 19:17Judges 20:20Judges 20:39

(15) And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
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Judges 20:25Judges 20:35Judges 20:46Judges 20:47Numbers 26:41

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Numbers 3:39Numbers 26:62Numbers 2:32I Samuel 13:15II Chronicles 2:17Judges 20:17

(16) Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.
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Judges 3:15I Chronicles 12:2I Samuel 17:40I Samuel 17:49I Samuel 17:50I Samuel 25:29II Chronicles 26:14

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10I Kings 5:17

(17) And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
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Judges 20:2Numbers 1:46Numbers 26:51I Samuel 11:8I Samuel 15:4I Chronicles 21:5II Chronicles 17:14II Chronicles 17:15II Chronicles 17:16II Chronicles 17:17II Chronicles 17:18

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Judges 20:15Ezekiel 48:16Leviticus 23:38Exodus 25:26Exodus 37:13Numbers 1:29

(18) And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.
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Judges 18:31Judges 19:18Joshua 18:1Joel 1:14Judges 20:7Judges 20:23Judges 20:26Judges 20:27Judges 1:1Numbers 27:5Numbers 27:21Joshua 9:14

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I Kings 3:11Judges 20:23Judges 20:39II Chronicles 1:11II Samuel 17:14

(19) And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
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Joshua 3:1Joshua 6:12Joshua 7:16

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Genesis 22:3I Kings 3:21

(20) And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
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I Chronicles 19:17II Chronicles 13:3Judges 20:14Judges 20:22Judges 20:39Hosea 10:9

(21) And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
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Genesis 49:27Hosea 10:9Deuteronomy 23:9II Chronicles 28:10Psalms 33:16Psalms 73:18Psalms 73:19Psalms 77:19Ecclesiastes 9:1Ecclesiastes 9:2Ecclesiastes 9:3Jeremiah 12:1

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Judges 20:25II Chronicles 2:10Genesis 7:23Joshua 3:17Judges 20:15Judges 20:35

(22) And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
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Judges 20:15Judges 20:17I Samuel 30:6II Samuel 11:25Psalms 64:5

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I Chronicles 19:17II Chronicles 13:3I Kings 20:12Judges 20:20I Samuel 4:2I Samuel 17:2

(23) (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)
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Judges 20:26Judges 20:27Psalms 78:34Psalms 78:35Psalms 78:36Hosea 5:15

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I Kings 3:11Judges 20:18Judges 20:39Genesis 45:14II Chronicles 1:11II Samuel 17:14

(24) And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
(25) And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
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Judges 20:21Genesis 18:25Job 9:12Job 9:13Psalms 97:2Romans 2:5Romans 3:5Romans 11:33

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Judges 20:21Genesis 7:23Judges 20:35Judges 20:15

(26) Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
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Judges 20:18Judges 20:23I Samuel 7:6II Chronicles 20:3Ezra 8:21Ezra 9:4Ezra 9:5Joel 1:14Joel 2:12Joel 2:13Joel 2:14Joel 2:15

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I Kings 8:64Numbers 29:39II Chronicles 7:7Ezekiel 45:17Exodus 32:6I Kings 3:15

(27) And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
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Judges 20:18Judges 20:23Numbers 27:21Joshua 18:1I Samuel 4:3I Samuel 4:4Psalms 78:60Psalms 78:61Jeremiah 7:12Isaiah 59:1

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Joshua 3:6I Samuel 4:4Exodus 40:20Joshua 6:6Joshua 8:33I Samuel 5:8

(28) And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.
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Numbers 25:7Numbers 25:8Numbers 25:9Numbers 25:10Numbers 25:11Numbers 25:12Numbers 25:13Joshua 22:13Joshua 22:30Joshua 22:31Joshua 22:32Joshua 24:33

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Judges 20:39I Samuel 28:19I Chronicles 6:4

(29) And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
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Judges 20:34Joshua 8:4II Samuel 5:23

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Judges 20:37I Kings 6:5Ezekiel 46:23Judges 20:33Judges 20:36

(30) And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
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Revelation 8:12II Samuel 18:2Ezekiel 5:2Ezekiel 5:12Judges 20:31Judges 20:20

(31) And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
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Joshua 8:14Joshua 8:15Joshua 8:16Judges 19:13Judges 19:14Isaiah 10:29Joshua 7:5

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Judges 20:39Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25Exodus 22:5Leviticus 27:21Daniel 4:23

(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 from the city unto the highways.
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Joshua 8:15Joshua 8:16

(33) And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
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Joshua 8:18Joshua 8:19Joshua 8:20Joshua 8:21Joshua 8:22

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Judges 20:37Judges 20:29Judges 20:36

(34) And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
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Joshua 8:14Job 21:13Proverbs 4:19Proverbs 29:6Ecclesiastes 8:11Ecclesiastes 8:12Ecclesiastes 9:12Isaiah 3:10Isaiah 3:11Isaiah 47:11Matthew 24:44Luke 21:34

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II Chronicles 13:3Judges 20:10Numbers 16:5I Samuel 31:3Hosea 10:9

(35) And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
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Judges 20:15Judges 20:44Judges 20:45Judges 20:46Job 20:5

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Judges 20:46Ezekiel 45:12Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:13Ezekiel 48:16Ezekiel 48:20

(36) So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
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Joshua 8:15Joshua 8:16Joshua 8:17Joshua 8:18Joshua 8:19Joshua 8:20Joshua 8:21Joshua 8:22Joshua 8:23Joshua 8:24Joshua 8:25Joshua 8:26

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Judges 20:37Leviticus 23:38Judges 20:15Judges 20:29Judges 20:33

(37) And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
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Joshua 8:19Exodus 19:13Joshua 6:5

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Judges 9:25Judges 20:29Judges 20:33Judges 20:36Joshua 8:13Judges 16:12

(38) Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
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Genesis 17:21II Kings 4:16

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Judges 20:37Exodus 19:18Judges 20:40Revelation 9:2Matthew 12:39Matthew 16:4

(39) And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
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Judges 20:31I Samuel 17:13I Samuel 29:4I Kings 22:30I Chronicles 19:17II Chronicles 13:3

(40) But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
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Genesis 19:28Song of Solomon 3:6Joel 2:30Revelation 19:3Joshua 8:20

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Judges 13:20Joshua 8:20Joel 2:3Exodus 19:18Genesis 19:26Genesis 19:28

(41) And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
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Exodus 15:9Exodus 15:10Isaiah 13:8Isaiah 13:9Isaiah 33:14Luke 17:27Luke 17:28Luke 21:26I Thessalonians 5:3II Peter 2:12Revelation 6:15Revelation 6:16

(42) Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
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Lamentations 1:3Hosea 9:9Hosea 10:9

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I Samuel 13:18II Chronicles 29:6

(43) Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
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Joshua 8:20Joshua 8:21Joshua 8:22

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(44) And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
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Judges 5:27Judges 20:46

(45) And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.
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Joshua 15:32I Chronicles 6:77Zechariah 14:10

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Judges 20:47Ezekiel 48:10I Samuel 13:18I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 8:16

(46) So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
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Judges 20:15Judges 20:35

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Judges 20:35Ezekiel 45:12Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:13Ezekiel 48:16Ezekiel 48:20

(47) But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
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Judges 21:13Psalms 103:9Psalms 103:10Isaiah 1:9Jeremiah 14:7Lamentations 3:32Habakkuk 3:2

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Judges 20:45II Kings 5:18Esther 2:12I Samuel 23:25Ezekiel 48:16Exodus 17:6

(48) And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
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Deuteronomy 13:15Deuteronomy 13:16Deuteronomy 13:17II Chronicles 25:13II Chronicles 28:6II Chronicles 28:7II Chronicles 28:8II Chronicles 28:9Proverbs 18:19

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Revelation 4:7II Kings 4:26Exodus 9:25Leviticus 24:18Revelation 13:4Revelation 13:15

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