Verse 9
Judges 20:9
Darby Translation
9
But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we go] by lot against it;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עַתָּ֕ה זֶ֣ה הַ/דָּבָ֔ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר נַעֲשֶׂ֖ה לַ/גִּבְעָ֑ה עָלֶ֖י/הָ בְּ/גוֹרָֽל
English Translation
And now this is the matter that we will do to the Gibeah concerning it by lot.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 20 Context
1
And all the children of Israel went forth, and the assembly gathered together as one man, from Dan t...
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And the heads of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the congregati...
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And the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah. And the childr...
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Then the Levite, the husband of the woman that was murdered, answered and said, I came to Gibeah tha...
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And the citizens of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house because of me, by night; they t...
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Then I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout the country of the inherita...
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Behold, all ye, children of Israel, deliberate and give here [your] counsel.
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And all the people rose up as one man, saying, We will not any one go to his tent, neither will we a...
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9
But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we go] by lot against it;
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and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousa...
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11
And all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
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12
And the tribes of Israel sent men to all the families of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this t...
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13
And now give up the men, the sons of Belial, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and p...
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14
And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities of Gibeah, to go out to...
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15
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities, twenty-six thousand men t...
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Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; all these slang stones at a h...
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17
And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: al...
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And the children of Israel arose and went up to Bethel, and inquired of God (Elohim), and said, Whic...
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And the children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.
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20
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in a...
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21
And the children of Benjamin went forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed to the ground of the Israelites...
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22
And the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and set the battle again in array in the place wher...
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And the children of Israel went up and wept before Jehovah until even, and inquired of Jehovah, sayi...
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And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
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And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and again destroyed to the ground...
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Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up and came to Bethel, and wept, and abode...
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27
And the children of Israel inquired of Jehovah (and the ark of the covenant of God (Elohim) was ther...
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and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I...
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And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah, round about.
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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, and were drawn away from the city, and beg...
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And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. And the childre...
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And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-Tamar; and...
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34
And there came from opposite Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was se...
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And Jehovah smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjaminites t...
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And the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten. And the men of Israel gave place to Benjami...
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And the ambush hasted, and fell upon Gibeah; and the ambush drew along, and smote the whole city wit...
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Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambush, that they should make a th...
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39
And when the men of Israel turned back in the battle, Benjamin began to smite, slaying of the men of...
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And when the burning began to rise up out of the city as a pillar of smoke, Benjamin looked behind,...
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41
Then the men of Israel turned back, and the men of Benjamin were amazed, for they saw that disaster...
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And they turned before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them;...
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43
They encompassed the Benjaminites, chased them, trode them down at the resting-place over against Gi...
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And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men: all these, men of valour.
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45
And they turned and fled towards the wilderness to the cliff of Rimmon, and they gleaned of them in...
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So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword: all the...
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And six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness to the cliff of Rimmon, and abode at the cliff...
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48
And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of th...
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