Verse 23
Judges 20:23
Bible in Basic English
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Now the children of Israel went up, weeping before the Lord till evening, requesting the Lord and saying, Am I to go forward again to the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּעֲל֣וּ בְנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל וַ/יִּבְכּ֣וּ לִ/פְנֵֽי יְהוָה֮ עַד הָ/עֶרֶב֒ וַ/יִּשְׁאֲל֤וּ בַֽ/יהוָה֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר הַ/אוֹסִ֗יף לָ/גֶ֨שֶׁת֙ לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֔ה עִם בְּנֵ֥י בִנְיָמִ֖ן אָחִ֑/י וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה עֲל֥וּ אֵלָֽי/ו
English Translation
And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until evening and they asked of the Lord saying, “Shall we go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin our brothers?” And the Lord said, “Go up against them.”
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Chapter 20 Context
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Then all the children of Israel took up arms, and the people came together like one man, from Dan to...
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And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of t...
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(Now the children of Benjamin had word that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the c...
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Then the Levite, the husband of the dead woman, said in answer, I came to Gibeah in the land of Benj...
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And the townsmen of Gibeah came together against me, going round the house on all sides by night; it...
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So I took her, cutting her into parts which I sent through all the country of the heritage of Israel...
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Here you all are, you children of Israel; give now your suggestions about what is to be done.
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Then all the people got up as one man and said, Not one of us will go to his tent or go back to his...
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But this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by the decision of the Lord;
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And we will take ten men out of every hundred, through all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of ev...
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11
So all the men of Israel were banded together against the town, united like one man.
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12
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which...
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Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away...
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14
And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the chi...
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15
And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed wit...
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Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.
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And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swo...
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18
And they got up and went up to Beth-el to get directions from God (Elohim), and the children of Isra...
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So the children of Israel got up in the morning and put themselves in position against Gibeah.
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20
And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fi...
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Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelit...
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But the people, the men of Israel, taking heart again, put their forces in order and took up the sam...
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Now the children of Israel went up, weeping before the Lord till evening, requesting the Lord and sa...
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So the children of Israel went forward against the children of Benjamin the second day.
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And the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah, cutting down eighteen thousand men of...
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26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there b...
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27
And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, (for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was t...
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28
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was in his place before it,) and said, Am I stil...
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So Israel put men secretly all round Gibeah to make a surprise attack on it.
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30
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themse...
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And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before,...
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And the children of Benjamin said, They are giving way before us as at first. But the children of Is...
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So all the men of Israel got up and put themselves in fighting order at Baal-tamar: and those who ha...
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34
And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting becam...
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Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to...
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So the children of Benjamin saw that they were overcome: and the men of Israel had given way before...
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And the watchers, rushing on Gibeah and overrunning it, put all the town to the sword without mercy.
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Now the sign fixed between the men of Israel and those making the surprise attack was that when they...
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39
The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death...
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40
Then the sign went up out of the town in the pillar of smoke, and the Benjamites, turning back, saw...
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41
And the men of Israel had made a turn about, and the men of Benjamin were overcome with fear, for th...
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42
So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the f...
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43
And crushing Benjamin down, they went after them, driving them from Nohah as far as the east side of...
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44
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin came to their death, all strong men of war.
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45
And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five t...
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46
So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of w...
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But six hundred men, turning back, went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land, and were...
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And the men of Israel, turning again against the children of Benjamin, put to the sword without merc...
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