Verse 20
Judges 20:20
New Living Translation
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Then they advanced toward Gibeah to attack the men of Benjamin.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֵּצֵא֙ אִ֣ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לַ/מִּלְחָמָ֖ה עִם בִּנְיָמִ֑ן וַ/יַּעַרְכ֨וּ אִתָּ֧/ם אִֽישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל מִלְחָמָ֖ה אֶל הַ/גִּבְעָֽה
English Translation
And a man of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel arranged for battle against them at Gibeah.
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Chapter 20 Context
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Then all the Israelites were united as one man, from Dan in the north to Beersheba in the south, inc...
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The leaders of all the people and all the tribes of Israel — 400,000 warriors armed with swords — to...
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(Word soon reached the land of Benjamin that the other tribes had gone up to Mizpah.) The Israelites...
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The Levite, the husband of the woman who had been murdered, said, “My concubine and I came to spend...
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That night some of the leading citizens of Gibeah surrounded the house, planning to kill me, and the...
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So I cut her body into twelve pieces and sent the pieces throughout the territory assigned to Israel...
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Now then, all of you — the entire community of Israel — must decide here and now what should be done...
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And all the people rose to their feet in unison and declared, “None of us will return home! No, not...
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Instead, this is what we will do to Gibeah; we will draw lots to decide who will attack it.
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One-tenth of the men from each tribe will be chosen to supply the warriors with food, and the rest o...
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So all the Israelites were completely united, and they gathered together to attack the town.
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The Israelites sent messengers to the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What a terrible thing has been don...
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Give up those evil men, those troublemakers from Gibeah, so we can execute them and purge Israel of...
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Instead, they came from their towns and gathered at Gibeah to fight the Israelites.
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In all, 26,000 of their warriors armed with swords arrived in Gibeah to join the 700 elite troops wh...
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Among Benjamin’s elite troops, 700 were left-handed, and each of them could sling a rock and hit a t...
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Israel had 400,000 experienced soldiers armed with swords, not counting Benjamin’s warriors.
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Before the battle the Israelites went to Bethel and asked God (Elohim), “Which tribe should go first...
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So the Israelites left early the next morning and camped near Gibeah.
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Then they advanced toward Gibeah to attack the men of Benjamin.
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But Benjamin’s warriors, who were defending the town, came out and killed 22,000 Israelites on the b...
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But the Israelites encouraged each other and took their positions again at the same place they had f...
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For they had gone up to Bethel and wept in the presence of the LORD until evening. They had asked th...
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So the next day they went out again to fight against the men of Benjamin,
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but the men of Benjamin killed another 18,000 Israelites, all of whom were experienced with the swor...
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Then all the Israelites went up to Bethel and wept in the presence of the LORD and fasted until even...
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The Israelites went up seeking direction from the LORD. (In those days the Ark of the Covenant of Go...
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and Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron was the priest.) The Israelites asked the LORD, “S...
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So the Israelites set an ambush all around Gibeah.
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They went out on the third day and took their positions at the same place as before.
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When the men of Benjamin came out to attack, they were drawn away from the town. And as they had don...
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Then the warriors of Benjamin shouted, “We’re defeating them as we did before!” But the Israelites h...
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When the main group of Israelite warriors reached Baal-tamar, they turned and took up their position...
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There were 10,000 elite Israelite troops who advanced against Gibeah. The fighting was so heavy that...
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So the LORD helped Israel defeat Benjamin, and that day the Israelites killed 25,100 of Benjamin’s w...
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Then the men of Benjamin saw that they were beaten. The Israelites had retreated from Benjamin’s war...
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Then those who were hiding rushed in from all sides and killed everyone in the town.
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They had arranged to send up a large cloud of smoke from the town as a signal.
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When the Israelites saw the smoke, they turned and attacked Benjamin’s warriors. By that time Benjam...
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But when the warriors of Benjamin looked behind them and saw the smoke rising into the sky from ever...
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the men of Israel turned and attacked. At this point the men of Benjamin became terrified, because t...
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So they turned around and fled before the Israelites toward the wilderness. But they couldn’t escape...
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The Israelites surrounded the men of Benjamin and chased them relentlessly, finally overtaking them...
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That day 18,000 of Benjamin’s strongest warriors died in battle.
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The survivors fled into the wilderness toward the rock of Rimmon, but Israel killed 5,000 of them al...
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So that day the tribe of Benjamin lost 25,000 strong warriors armed with swords,
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leaving only 600 men who escaped to the rock of Rimmon, where they lived for four months.
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And the Israelites returned and slaughtered every living thing in all the towns — the people, the li...
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