Verse 38
Judges 20:38
World English Bible
38
Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הַ/מּוֹעֵ֗ד הָיָ֛ה לְ/אִ֥ישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל עִם הָ/אֹרֵ֑ב הֶ֕רֶב לְ/הַעֲלוֹתָ֛/ם מַשְׂאַ֥ת הֶ/עָשָׁ֖ן מִן הָ/עִֽיר
English Translation
And the appointed time was for a man of Israel with the hunter to send up the smoke from the city.
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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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The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly...
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3
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children...
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4
The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to...
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5
The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me, and...
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6
I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritan...
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7
Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”
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8
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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9
But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
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10
and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one...
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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
The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this th...
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13
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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16
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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21
The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Is...
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22
The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place...
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23
The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, sayin...
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24
The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
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25
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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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
Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
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30
The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves...
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31
The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they be...
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32
The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children o...
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33
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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35
Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twen...
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36
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin, be...
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37
The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city...
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38
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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40
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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41
The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come...
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42
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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47
But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the r...
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48
The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the swo...
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