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Judges 20:34

King James Version (KJV)

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And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil [was] near them.

Judges 20:34 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Judges 20:34

Theological / Devotional

Ten thousand chosen men. This was evidently the group who formed the ambush and who seem to have attacked Gibeah itself.

Knew not. Although the Benjamites recognized that they were having a hard battle, yet each one, busily engaged on his own front, did not perceive that their forces were completely surrounded and thus doomed to destruction.

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