Judges 20:17 · KJV
“And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these {were} men of war.”
— Judges 20:17
Among all this people {there were} seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair {breadth}, and not miss.
And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah {shall go up} first.
Judges 20 — Context
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
16Among all this people {there were} seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair {breadth}, and not miss.
17And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these {were} men of war.
18And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah {shall go up} first.
19And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
Cross References
Numbers 1:46
Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
1 Samuel 11:8
And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
1 Samuel 15:4
And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
Judges 20:2
And the chief of all the people, {even} of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
Numbers 26:51
These {were} the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
2 Chronicles 17:14-18
And these {are} the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.
1 Chronicles 21:5
And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all {they of} Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah {was} four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.