Judges 20:44
New International Version
Eighteen thousand Benjamites fell, all of them valiant fighters.

New Living Translation
That day 18,000 of Benjamin’s strongest warriors died in battle.

English Standard Version
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.

Berean Standard Bible
And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.

King James Bible
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

New King James Version
And eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.

New American Standard Bible
So eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all of these were valiant men.

NASB 1995
Thus 18,000 men of Benjamin fell; all these were valiant warriors.

NASB 1977
Thus 18,000 men of Benjamin fell; all these were valiant warriors.

Legacy Standard Bible
Thus 18,000 men of Benjamin fell; all these were valiant men.

Amplified Bible
Thus eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of these brave and able warriors.

Christian Standard Bible
There were eighteen thousand men who died from Benjamin; all were warriors.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There were 18,000 men who died from Benjamin; all were warriors.

American Standard Version
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

Contemporary English Version
until 18,000 of these warriors lay dead.

English Revised Version
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There were 18,000 experienced men from Benjamin who died in battle.

Good News Translation
Eighteen thousand of the best Benjaminite soldiers were killed.

International Standard Version
That's how 18,000 men from the tribe of Benjamin fell in battle, all of whom were valiant soldiers.

Majority Standard Bible
And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.

NET Bible
Eighteen thousand Benjaminites, all of them capable warriors, fell dead.

New Heart English Bible
There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

World English Bible
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fall—all these [were] men of valor;

Young's Literal Translation
And there fall of Benjamin eighteen thousand men -- the whole of these are men of valour;

Smith's Literal Translation
And there will fall of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these men of strength.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that were slain in the same place were eighteen thousand men, all most valiant soldiers.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Now those who were put to death in the same place were eighteen thousand men, all very robust fighters.

New American Bible
Eighteen thousand from Benjamin fell, all of them warriors.

New Revised Standard Version
Eighteen thousand Benjaminites fell, all of them courageous fighters.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And there fell of the Benjamites eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And eighteen thousand men of the sons of Benjamin fell, all these men were warriors
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men: all these were men of might.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Civil War Against Benjamin
43They surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east. 44And 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor. 45Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.…

Cross References
Joshua 8:24-25
When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well. / A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

1 Samuel 4:10
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.

2 Samuel 2:17
The battle that day was intense, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated by the servants of David.

2 Chronicles 13:17
Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.

Hosea 10:9
Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel, and there you have remained. Did not the battle in Gibeah overtake the sons of iniquity?

Psalm 78:60-64
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men. / He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary. / He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage. ...

Isaiah 10:3-4
What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth? / Nothing will remain but to crouch among the captives or fall among the slain. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Jeremiah 7:12-15
But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. / And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer, / therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers. ...

Jeremiah 19:3-9
saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring, / because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. / They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind. ...

Matthew 24:21-22
For at that time there will be great tribulation, unseen from the beginning of the world until now, and never to be seen again. / If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

Luke 21:22-24
For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. / How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people. / They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Romans 11:4-5
And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” / In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

1 Corinthians 10:8
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

Hebrews 11:32-34
And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, / who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, / quenched the raging fire, and escaped the edge of the sword; who gained strength from weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.


Treasury of Scripture

And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

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Judges 20
1. The Levite in a general assembly declared his wrong
8. The decree of the assembly
12. The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites
18. The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand
26. They destroy by a plan all the Benjamites, except six hundred.














And 18,000 Benjamites fell
This phrase marks a significant moment in the narrative of the Israelite civil war against the tribe of Benjamin. The number "18,000" is not just a statistic but a testament to the severity of the conflict and the judgment that befell Benjamin. In Hebrew, numbers often carry symbolic weight, and here, the large number underscores the magnitude of the loss and the seriousness of the sin that led to such a divine judgment. The tribe of Benjamin, once a symbol of strength and valor, is now depicted in a state of defeat, highlighting the consequences of turning away from God's commandments.

all men of valor
The term "men of valor" is translated from the Hebrew word "חַיִל" (chayil), which denotes strength, efficiency, and ability. This phrase emphasizes that those who fell were not ordinary soldiers but elite warriors, skilled and courageous. Historically, the Benjamites were known for their prowess in battle, as seen earlier in the book of Judges. The loss of such formidable fighters signifies not only a military defeat but also a moral and spiritual decline. It serves as a sobering reminder that human strength and valor are insufficient without adherence to God's will. The fall of these valiant men is a call to the reader to place trust not in human might but in divine guidance and righteousness.

Verses 44-46. - And there fell, etc. The account in ver. 35, anticipating the details of the battle, had already given the gross number of casualties in the Benjamite army on this disastrous day as 25,100. We now have the items of the account, viz., 18,000 in the pursuit, in the open plain; 5000 in the highways, i.e. either the highways mentioned in ver. 31, or, as the expression gleaning rather intimates, the highways by which straggling bodies tried to reach any neighbouring cities after the great slaughter had taken place; and 2000 more who were making from Gidom; in all 25,000, which is only 100 men short of the reckoning in ver. 35. The rock of Rimmon. See ver. 47, note. Gidom. Not elsewhere mentioned, nor identified with any modern name.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And 18,000
שְׁמֹנָֽה־ (šə·mō·nāh-)
Number - masculine singular
Strong's 8083: A cardinal number, eight, eighth

Benjamites
מִבִּנְיָמִ֔ן (mib·bin·yā·min)
Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1144: Benjamin -- 'son of the right hand', youngest son of Jacob, also the name of two other Israelites

fell,
וַֽיִּפְּלוּ֙ (way·yip·pə·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

valiant warriors.
אַנְשֵׁי־ (’an·šê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person


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