Verse 36
Judges 20:36
King James Version
36
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּרְא֥וּ בְנֵֽי בִנְיָמִ֖ן כִּ֣י נִגָּ֑פוּ וַ/יִּתְּנ֨וּ אִֽישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל מָקוֹם֙ לְ/בִנְיָמִ֔ן כִּ֤י בָֽטְחוּ֙ אֶל הָ֣/אֹרֵ֔ב אֲשֶׁר שָׂ֖מוּ אֶל הַ/גִּבְעָֽה
English Translation
And the sons of Benjamin saw that they were defeated, and each man of Israel gave place to Benjamin because they trusted in the ambush which they had set against Gibeah.
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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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And the chief of all the people,
even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assem...
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(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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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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And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew
themselves along, a...
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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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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 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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