Judges 20:21

20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. ¹ 

Judges 20:30

20:30 The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; ²  they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.

Judges 20:37

20:37 The men hiding in ambush made a mad dash ³  to Gibeah. They ⁴  attacked ⁵  and put the sword to the entire city.

Judges 20:43

20:43 They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, ⁶  and annihilated ⁷  them all the way to a spot east of Geba. ⁸ 

¹ tn Heb “The sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and they struck down in Israel that day twenty-two thousand men to the ground.”

² tn Heb “the third day.”

³ tn Heb “hurried and put off [their hiding place].”

⁴ tn Heb “the men hiding in ambush.”

⁵ tn Or “deployed.” The verb normally means “to lead” or “to draw.”

⁴ tc The translation assumes the reading מִנּוֹחָה (minnokhah, “from Nohah”; cf. 1 Chr 8:2) rather than the MT’s מְנוּחָה (mÿnukhah, “resting place”).

⁵ tn Heb “tread down, walk on.”

⁶ tn Heb “unto the opposite of Gibeah toward the east.” Gibeah cannot be correct here, since the Benjaminites retreated from there toward the desert and Rimmon (see v. 45). A slight emendation yields the reading “Geba.”