Verse 5
Judges 20:5
King James Version
5
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night,
and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.
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
1
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, fro...
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2
And the chief of all the people,
even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assem...
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3
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said t...
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4
And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that...
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5
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night,
and thought...
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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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7
Behold, ye
are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
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8
And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any
of us
go to his tent, neither will we...
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9
But now this
shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah;
we will go up by lot against it;
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10
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
us the men, the children of Belial, which
are in Gibeah, that we may put them...
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14
But 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 at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand me...
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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 the house of God (Elohim), and asked counsel of God...
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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 put themselves 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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22
And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their 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 asked counsel of the LO...
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24
And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
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25
And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground...
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26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God (Elohim...
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27
And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God (Elohim)
was th...
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28
And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I...
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29
And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
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30
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themse...
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31
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people,
and
were drawn away from the city; and th...
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32
And the children of Benjamin said, They
are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the childre...
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33
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 against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: bu...
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35
And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites th...
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36
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benj...
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37
And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew
themselves along, a...
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38
Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should ma...
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39
And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite
and kill of the men of Isr...
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40
But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked b...
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41
And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was...
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42
Therefore they turned
their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the b...
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43
Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about,
and
chased them,
and trode them down with ease over...
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44
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these
were
men of valour.
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45
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in...
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46
So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; a...
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47
But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Ri...
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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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