And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.(Judges 20:45)

So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.(Judges 20:46)

But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.(Judges 20:47)

And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.(Judges 21:1)

And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;(Judges 21:2)

And said, O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?(Judges 21:3)

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Judges 20:48 - Cross Reference

For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. (2 Chronicles 28:6)

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle. (Proverbs 18:19)

But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil. (2 Chronicles 25:13)

Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword. (Deuteronomy 13:15)