Verse 30
Judges 20:30
English Revised Version
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And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us rise, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּעֲל֧וּ בְנֵֽי יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל אֶל בְּנֵ֥י בִנְיָמִ֖ן בַּ/יּ֣וֹם הַ/שְּׁלִישִׁ֑י וַ/יַּעַרְכ֥וּ אֶל הַ/גִּבְעָ֖ה כְּ/פַ֥עַם בְּ/פָֽעַם
English Translation
And the sons of Israel went up to the sons of Benjamin on the third day, and they arranged against the Gibeah as at other times.
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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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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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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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(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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28
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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30
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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33
And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day...
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34
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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39
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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40
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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