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## Judges 20:17 in Context (Verses 14–20 KJV)
 
 [14 ](/kjv/judges/20/14) But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/judges/20/15) 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.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/judges/20/16) Among all this people *there were* seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair *breadth*, and not miss.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/judges/20/17) And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these *were* men of war.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/judges/20/18) ¶ 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.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/judges/20/19) And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/judges/20/20) And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.
 
[Judges 19](/kjv/judges/19) [Judges 21](/kjv/judges/21)

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