Judges 20:21
Context20:21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day. 1
Judges 20:30
Context20:30 The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; 2 they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.
Judges 20:37
Context20:37 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
Context20:43 They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, 6 and annihilated 7 them all the way to a spot east of Geba. 8


[20:21] 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.”
[20:30] 2 tn Heb “the third day.”
[20:37] 3 tn Heb “hurried and put off [their hiding place].”
[20:37] 4 tn Heb “the men hiding in ambush.”
[20:37] 5 tn Or “deployed.” The verb normally means “to lead” or “to draw.”
[20:43] 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”).
[20:43] 5 tn Heb “tread down, walk on.”
[20:43] 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.”