Holy Scripture

Judges 20:48

A church father on this verse
“Not even a minority of the women stayed clear of that struggle, but all the women of the tribe of Benjamin, along with boys and girls of every age, were wiped out by sword or fire.”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — LETTER 33

Source: Septuagint

Original

48And the children of Israel returned to the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword from the city of Methla, even to the cattle, and everything that was found in all the cities: and they burned with fire the cities they found.

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46And all that fell of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew sword in that day: all these were men of might.

47And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, even six hundred men; and they sojourned four months in the rock of Rimmon.

— Judges 20:48 —

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