Judges 20:34-44 – And there came against Gibeah 10,000
chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard, but the Benjaminites did not know that
disaster was close upon them. And the Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the
people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men
who drew the sword. So the people of
Benjamin saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to
Benjamin, because they trusted the men in ambush whom they had set against
Gibeah. Then the men in
ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and
struck all the city with the edge of the sword. Now the appointed
signal between the men of Israel and the men in the main ambush was that when
they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city the men of Israel
should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty
men of Israel. They said, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first
battle.” But when the signal began to rise out
of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and
behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to
heaven. Then the men of Israel turned, and the
men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them. Therefore they turned
their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness, but the
battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them
in their midst. Surrounding the Benjaminites, they
pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gibeah on the east. Eighteen thousand men
of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.
1
Samuel 9:21 – Saul answered, “Am I
not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe
of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?”
Application:
- · God’s use of the powerless to promote His kingdom in the world is a common feature in the Biblical testimony and underscores the truth that His kingdom is not of this world.
All Scripture verses taken from ESV
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