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Judges 20

Judges 20 — Overview

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

, The Levite in a general assembly declares his wrong; , The decree of the assembly; , The Benjamites, being cited, make head against the Israelites; , The Israelites in two battles lose forty thousand; , They destroy by a stratagem all the Benjamites, except six hundred.

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