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Jdg 20:35 — 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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twenty		Jdg 20:15,44-46; Job 20:5; Though the numbers of the Israelites were immensely superior to those of Benjamin, though the stratagem was well laid and ingeniously executed, and the battle bravely fought, yet the inspired historian ascribes the victory to the hand of the LORD, as entirely as if he had smitten the Benjamites by a miracle.

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twenty

	Jdg 20:15	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.
	Jdg 20:44	And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valour.
	Jdg 20:45	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.
	Jdg 20:46	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.
	Job 20:5	That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?

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Scott, Thomas. "Judges 20:35," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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