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Summary

And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

Drawn

Smite of the people, and kill, as at

Thirty

Bible References

Drawn

Joshua 8:14
When the king of Ai saw Israel, he and his whole army quickly got up the next day and went out to fight Israel at the meeting place near the Arabah. But he did not realize men were hiding behind the city.

Smite of the people, and kill, as at

Judges 19:13
He said to his servant, "Come on, we will go into one of the other towns and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah."
Isaiah 10:29
They went through the pass, spent the night at Geba. Ramah trembled, Gibeah of Saul ran away.

Thirty

Joshua 7:5
The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them and chased them from in front of the city gate all the way to the fissures and defeated them on the steep slope. The people's courage melted away like water.

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