Verse 7
Judges 20:7
English Revised Version
7
Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
Original Language Text
hebrew
הִנֵּ֥ה כֻלְּ/כֶ֖ם בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל הָב֥וּ לָ/כֶ֛ם דָּבָ֥ר וְ/עֵצָ֖ה הֲלֹֽם
English Translation
Behold, all of you, sons of Israel, have come to you with a matter and counsel.
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Chapter 20 Context
1
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan ev...
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And the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the asse...
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(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpah.) And the chi...
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And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was murdered, answered and said, I came into Gibeah th...
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And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night; me they tho...
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And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inher...
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Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
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And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we a...
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But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up against it by lot;
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and we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thou...
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11
So 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 through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this...
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13
Now therefore deliver up the men, the sons of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to d...
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14
And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out t...
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15
And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men...
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16
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones a...
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17
And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all...
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18
And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God (Elohim); and the...
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19
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 set the battle in a...
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21
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israe...
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And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the p...
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23
(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even; and they asked of the LORD,...
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24
And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground...
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25
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto Beth-el, and wept, and s...
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26
And the children of Israel asked of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God (Elohim) was there...
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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 the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themse...
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And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and the...
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And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the childre...
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And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and...
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32
And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sor...
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And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day...
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So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin...
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And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, a...
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Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait was, that they should make a...
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And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israe...
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But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked beh...
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And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come u...
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Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the b...
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They enclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down at their resting plac...
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42
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
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And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in...
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So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; a...
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But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the...
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And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of th...
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