Judges 20:46

What does Judges 20:46 mean?

A plain-English look at Judges 20:46 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of war.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

And all those falling of Benjamin are twenty and five thousand men drawing sword, on that day--the whole of these <FI>are<Fi> men of valour;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And so it came to pass, that all that were slain of Benjamin, in divers places, were five and twenty thousand fighting men, most valiant for war.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword: all these, men of valour.

Context

v.45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.

v.46This passage

v.47But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Judges 20:35

    And Jehovah smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men: all these drew the sword.

  • Judges 20:15

    And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

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