Verse 1
Judges 20:1
World English Bible
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Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֵּצְאוּ֮ כָּל בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ וַ/תִּקָּהֵ֨ל הָ/עֵדָ֜ה כְּ/אִ֣ישׁ אֶחָ֗ד לְ/מִ/דָּן֙ וְ/עַד בְּאֵ֣ר שֶׁ֔בַע וְ/אֶ֖רֶץ הַ/גִּלְעָ֑ד אֶל יְהוָ֖ה הַ/מִּצְפָּֽה
English Translation
And all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered as one man from Dan to Beersheba and the land of Gilead to the Lord at Mizpah.
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Chapter 20 Context
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Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan ev...
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The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly...
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(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children...
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The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to...
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The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me, and...
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I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritan...
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Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”
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All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us tur...
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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 one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one...
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So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
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12
The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this th...
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Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to dea...
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14
The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to batt...
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15
The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew...
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Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them...
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17
The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All thes...
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18
The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God (Elohim). They asked, “Who...
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19
The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
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20
The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array...
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The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Is...
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The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place...
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The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, sayin...
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The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
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Benjamin went out against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the...
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26
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat...
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27
The children of Israel asked Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God (Elohim) was there in those...
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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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Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
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The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves...
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The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they be...
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The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children o...
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All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then th...
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34
Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but t...
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Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twen...
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So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin, be...
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The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city...
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Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great...
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The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel a...
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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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The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come...
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Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the bat...
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43
They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as ne...
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44
Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
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45
They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; and they gleaned five thousand men...
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46
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All thes...
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But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the r...
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The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the swo...
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