Judges 20:48

The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ¹  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ²  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ³ 

De 13:15-17; 2Ch 25:13; 2Ch 28:6-9; Pr 18:19

¹ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

² tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).

³ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”