Did they kill women and children in the civil war against Benjamin?
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At the end of the civil war against Benjamin, Jg 20:
Ellicott, Benson, Keil and Delitzsch, Matthew Poole, and Gill all thought so.
Jg 21:
Did they kill women and children in the civil war against Benjamin?
Yes, the tribe of Benjamin was almost exterminated during this civil war.
Only a remnant of 600 Benjamin men survived.46 On that day twenty-five thousand Benjamite swordsmen fell, all of them valiant fighters. 47 But six hundred of them turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
Did they kill the women and children?48 The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put all the towns to the sword, including the animals and everything else they found. All the towns they came across they set on fire.
Ellicott, Benson, Keil and Delitzsch, Matthew Poole, and Gill all thought so.
Jg 21:
They killed the men, women, and children in Jabesh-Gilead (Manassah) but spared 400 young virgins (Jg 21:12) to be wives for the Benjamin survivors. The others caught 200 daughters of Shiloh when they danced during a yearly feast to the Lord (Jg 21:21).15 The people grieved for Benjamin, because the Lord had made a gap in the tribes of Israel. 16 And the elders of the assembly said, “With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left?
Did they kill women and children in the civil war against Benjamin?
Yes, the tribe of Benjamin was almost exterminated during this civil war.