Holy Scripture
Judges 20:20
A church father on this verse
“And when at first the people of Israel were defeated, yet unmoved by fear at the reverses of the war, they disregarded the sorrow the avenging of chastity cost them. They rushed into the battle ready to wash out with their own blood the stains of the crime that had been committed.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
20And they went out, all the men of Israel, to fight with Benjamin, and engaged with them at Gibeah.
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18And they arose and went up to Bethel, and inquired of God: and the children of Israel said, Who shall go up for us first to fight with the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first as leader.
19And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
— Judges 20:20 —
21And the sons of Benjamin went forth from Gibeah, and they destroyed in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men down to the ground.
22And the men of Israel strengthened themselves, and again engaged in battle in the place where they had engaged on the first day.