Verse 5
Judges 20:5
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
5
And behold the men of that city in the night beset the house wherein I was, intending to kill me, and abused my wife with an incredible fury of lust, so that at last she died.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יָּקֻ֤מוּ עָלַ/י֙ בַּעֲלֵ֣י הַ/גִּבְעָ֔ה וַ/יָּסֹ֧בּוּ עָלַ֛/י אֶת הַ/בַּ֖יִת לָ֑יְלָה אוֹתִ/י֙ דִּמּ֣וּ לַ/הֲרֹ֔ג וְ/אֶת פִּילַגְשִׁ֥/י עִנּ֖וּ וַ/תָּמֹֽת
English Translation
And they arose against me, the lords of Gibeah, and they surrounded the house at night to kill me; and they abused my concubine, and she died.
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Chapter 20 Context
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Then all the children of Israel went out and gathered together as one man from Dan to Bersabee, with...
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And all the chiefs of the people, and all the tribes of Israel met together in the assembly of the p...
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(Nor were the children of Benjamin ignorant that the children of Israel were come up to Maspha.) And...
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Answered: I came into Gabaa of Benjamin with my wife, and there I lodged:
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And behold the men of that city in the night beset the house wherein I was, intending to kill me, an...
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And I took her and cut her in pieces, and sent the, parts into all the borders of your possession: b...
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You are all here, O children of Israel, determine what you ought to do.
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And all the people standing, answered as by the voice of one man: We will not return to our tents, n...
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But this we will do in common against Gabaa:
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We will take ten men of a hundred out of all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of a thousand,...
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And all Israel were gathered together against the city, as one man, with one mind, and one counsel:
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And they sent messengers to all the tribe of Benjamin to say to them: Why hath so great an abominati...
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Deliver up the men of Gabaa, that have committed this heinous crime, that they may die, and the evil...
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But out of all the cities which were of their lot, they gathered themselves together into Gabaa, to...
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And there were found of Benjamin five and twenty thousand men that drew the sword, besides the inhab...
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Who were seven hundred most valiant men, fighting with the left hand as well as with the right: and...
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Of the men of Israel also, beside the children of Benjamin, were found four hundred thousand that dr...
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And they arose and came to the house of God (Elohim), that is, to Silo: and they consulted God (Eloh...
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And forthwith the children of Israel rising in the morning, camped by Gabaa:
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And going out from thence to fight against Benjamin, began to assault the city.
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And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa, slew of the children of Israel that day two and tw...
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Again Israel trusting in their strength and their number, set their army in array in the same place,...
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Yet so that they first went up and wept before the Lord until night: and consulted him, and said: Sh...
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And when the children of Israel went out the next day to fight against the children of Benjamin,
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The children of Benjamin sallied forth out of the gates of Gabaa: and meeting them made so great a s...
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Wherefore all the children of Israel came to the house of God (Elohim), and sat and wept before the...
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And inquired of him concerning their state. At that time the ark of the covenant of the Lord was the...
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And Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron was over the house. So they consulted the Lord and s...
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And the children of Israel set ambushes round about the city of Gabaa:
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And they drew up their army against Benjamin the third time, as they had done the first and second.
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And the children of Benjamin boldly issued out of the city, and seeing their enemies flee, pursued t...
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For they thought to cut them off, as they did before. But they artfully feigning a flight, designed...
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Then all the children of Israel rising up out of the places where they were, set their army in battl...
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And to march from the west side of the city. And other ten thousand men chosen out of all Israel att...
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And the Lord defeated them before the children of Israel, and they slew of them in that day five and...
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But the children of Benjamin when they saw themselves to be too weak, began to flee. Which the child...
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And they that were in ambush arose on a sudden out of their coverts, and whilst Benjamin turned thei...
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Now the children of Israel had given a sign to them, whom they had laid in ambushes, that after they...
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And when the children of Israel saw this in the battle (for the children of Benjamin thought they fl...
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And perceived as it were a pillar of smoke rise up from the city; and Benjamin looking back, saw tha...
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They that before had made as if they fled, turning their faces stood bravely against them; which the...
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And began to go towards the way of the desert, the enemy pursuing them thither also. And they that f...
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And so it was, that they were slain on both sides by the enemies, and there was no rest of their men...
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And they that were slain in the same place were eighteen thousand men, all most valiant soldiers.
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And when they that remained of Benjamin saw this, they fled into the wilderness and made towards the...
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And so it came to pass, that all that were slain of Benjamin in divers places, were five and twenty...
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And there remained of all the number of Benjamin only six hundred men that were able to escape, and...
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But the children of Israel returning, put all the remains of the city to the sword, both men and bea...
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