The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.
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The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
And a man of Israel turned, and a man of Benjamin was alarmed, for he saw that harm had touched upon him.
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The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.
Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.
Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil was come upon them.
And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
Then the men of Israel turned againe, and the men of Beniamin were astonied: for they saw that euill was neere vnto them.
They that before had made as if they fled, turning their faces stood bravely against them; which the children of Benjamin seeing, turned their backs,
And the men of Israel have turned, and the men of Benjamin are troubled, for they have seen that the evil hath stricken against them --
And the men of Israel have turned, and the men of Benjamin are troubled, for they have seen that the calamity has struck against them—
Then the people of Israel turned against them. The men of Benjamin were terrified, for they saw that disaster had come on them.
And a man of Israel turned, and a man of Benjamin was alarmed, for he saw that harm had touched upon him.
Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.
The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil had come upon them.
they turned on their enemies. The Benjamites were horrified when they saw it and realized they were doomed.
And the men of Israel had made a turn about, and the men of Benjamin were overcome with fear, for they saw that evil had overtaken them.
And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were amazed; for they saw that evil was come upon them.
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
וַיִּבָּהֵ֖ל to terrify H926 occurs in 39 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Repetition
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וְאִ֤ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ הָפַ֔ךְ וַיִּבָּהֵ֖ל אִ֣ישׁ בִּנְיָמִ֑ן כִּ֣י רָאָ֔ה כִּֽי נָגְעָ֥ה עָלָ֖יו הָרָעָֽה
The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀνήρ ἰσραήλ ἐπιστρέφω καί σπεύδω ἀνήρ βενιαμίν ὅτι ὁράω ὅτι συνἀντάω ἐπί αὐτός ὁ πονηρία
And the men of Israel turned back, and the men of Benjamin hasted, because they saw that evil had come upon them.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וֶאֱנַשׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל אִתְחַזֵר וְאִתְבְּהֵיל אֱנַשׁ בִּנְיָמִין אֲרֵי חֲזָא אֲרֵי קְרִיבַת דִתֵיתֵי לְהוֹן בִּישְׁתָּא:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bâhal (“to terrify”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 20:41 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.