Verse 4
Judges 20:4
Geneva Bible
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And the same Leuite, the womans husband that was slaine, answered and saide, I came vnto Gibeah that is in Beniamin with my concubine to lodge,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּ֜עַן הָ/אִ֣ישׁ הַ/לֵּוִ֗י אִ֛ישׁ הָ/אִשָּׁ֥ה הַ/נִּרְצָחָ֖ה וַ/יֹּאמַ֑ר הַ/גִּבְעָ֨תָ/ה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לְ/בִנְיָמִ֔ן בָּ֛אתִי אֲנִ֥י וּ/פִֽילַגְשִׁ֖/י לָ/לֽוּן
English Translation
And the man the Levite answered, the man of the woman who was murdered, and said, "I came to the house of Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge."
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Chapter 20 Context
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Then all the children of Israel went out, and the Congregation was gathered together as one man, fro...
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And the chiefe of all the people, and all the tribes of Israel assembled in the Congregation of the...
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(Now the children of Beniamin heard that the children of Israel were gone vp to Mizpeh) Then the chi...
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And the same Leuite, the womans husband that was slaine, answered and saide, I came vnto Gibeah that...
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And the men of Gibeah arose against me, and beset the house round about vpon mee by night, thinking...
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Then I tooke my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the countrey of the in...
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Behold, ye are al children of Israel: giue your aduise, and counsell herein.
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Then all the people arose as one man, saying, There shall not a man of vs goe to his tent, neither a...
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But now this is that thing which we will do to Gibeah: we wil goe vp by lot against it,
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And we wil take ten men of the hundreth throughout al the tribes of Israel, and an hundreth of the t...
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So all the men of Israel were gathered against the citie, knit together, as one man.
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And the tribes of Israel sent men through al the tribe of Beniamin, saying, What wickednesse is this...
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Nowe therefore deliuer vs those wicked men which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and p...
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But ye children of Beniamin gathered them selues together out of the cities vnto Gibeah, to come out...
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And ye children of Beniamin were nombred at that time out of the cities sixe and twenty thousand men...
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Of all this people were seuen hundreth chosen men, being left handed: all these could sling stones a...
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Also the men of Israel, beside Beniamin, were nombred foure hundreth thousande men that drew sword,...
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And the children of Israel arose, and went vp to the house of God (Elohim), and asked of God (Elohim...
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Then the children of Israel arose vp earely and camped against Gibeah.
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And the men of Israel went out to battell against Beniamin, and the men of Israel put themselues in...
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And the children of Beniamin came out of Gibeah, and slewe downe to the ground of the Israelites tha...
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And the people, the men of Israel plucked vp their hearts, and set their battel againe in aray in th...
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(For the children of Israel had gone vp and wept before the Lord vnto the euening, and had asked of...
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Then the children of Israel came neere against the children of Beniamin the second day.
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Also the second day Beniamin came forth to meete them out of Gibeah, and slewe downe to the grounde...
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Then al the children of Israel went vp and all the people came also vnto the house of God (Elohim),...
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And the children of Israel asked the Lord (for there was the Arke of the couenat of God (Elohim) in...
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And Phinehas the sonne of Eleazar, the sonne of Aaron stoode before it at that time) saying, Shall I...
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And Israel set men to lie in waite round about Gibeah.
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And the children of Israel went vp against the children of Beniamin the third day, and put theselues...
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Then the children of Beniamin comming out against the people, were drawen from the citie: and they b...
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(For the children of Beniamin sayd, They are fallen before vs, as at the first. But the children of...
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And all the men of Israel rose vp out of their place, and put themselues in aray at Baal-tamar: and...
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And they came ouer against Gibeah, ten thousande chosen men of all Israel, and the battell was sore:...
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And the Lord smote Beniamin before Israel, and the children of Israel destroyed of the Beniamites th...
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So the children of Beniamin sawe that they were striken downe: for the men of Israel gaue place to t...
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And they that lay in wait hasted, and brake forth toward Gibeah, and the ambushment drewe themselues...
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Also the men of Israel had appoynted a certaine time with the ambushmentes, that they should make a...
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And when the men of Israel retired in the battel, Beniamin began to smite and kill of the men of Isr...
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But when the flame bega to arise out of the citie, as a pillar of smoke, the Beniamites looked backe...
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Then the men of Israel turned againe, and the men of Beniamin were astonied: for they saw that euill...
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Therefore they fled before the men of Israel vnto the way of the wildernesse, but the battell ouerto...
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Thus they compassed the Beniamites about, and chased them at ease, and ouerranne them, euen ouer aga...
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And there were slaine of Beniamin eyghteene thousad men, which were all men of warre.
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And they turned and fled to the wildernes vnto the rocke of Rimmon: and the Israelites glayned of th...
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So that all that were slayne that day of Beniamin, were fiue and twentie thousand men that drewe swo...
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But sixe hundreth men turned and fled to the wildernesse vnto the rocke of Rimmon, and abode in the...
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Then the men of Israel returned vnto the children of Beniamin, and smote them with the edge of the s...
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