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JUD-20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the
congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to
Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
JUD-20:2 And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the
tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the
people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
JUD-20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children
of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of
Israel, Tell [us], how was this wickedness?
JUD-20:4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain,
answered and said, I came into Gibeah that [belongeth] to
Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
JUD-20:5 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.
JUD-20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and
sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel:
for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
JUD-20:7 Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel; give here your
advice and counsel.
JUD-20:8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will
not any [of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn
into his house.
JUD-20:9 But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to
Gibeah; [we will go up] by lot against it;
JUD-20:10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all
the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a
thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people,
that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin,
according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
JUD-20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the
city, knit together as one man.
JUD-20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the
tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is
done among you?
JUD-20:13 Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of
Belial, which [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death,
and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin
would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of
Israel:
JUD-20:14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves
together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle
against the children of Israel.
JUD-20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that
time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew
sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered
seven hundred chosen men.
JUD-20:16 Among all this people [there were] seven hundred
chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair
[breadth], and not miss.
JUD-20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered
four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men
of war.
JUD-20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the
house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us
shall go up first to the battle against the children of
Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah [shall go up] first.
JUD-20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and
encamped against Gibeah.
JUD-20:20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against
Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight
against them at Gibeah.
JUD-20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah,
and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day
twenty and two thousand men.
JUD-20:22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves,
and set their battle again in array in the place where they put
themselves in array the first day.
JUD-20:23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before
the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying,
Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin
my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)
JUD-20:24 And the children of Israel came near against the
children of Benjamin the second day.
JUD-20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the
second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of
Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
JUD-20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people,
went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there
before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered
burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
JUD-20:27 And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, (for
the ark of the covenant of God [was] there in those days,
JUD-20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron,
stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out
to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall
I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver
them into thine hand.
JUD-20:29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
JUD-20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the
children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in
array against Gibeah, as at other times.
JUD-20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the
people, [and] were drawn away from the city; and they began to
smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the
highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the
other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
JUD-20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten
down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said,
Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
JUD-20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place,
and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait
of Israel came forth out of their places, [even] out of the
meadows of Gibeah.
JUD-20:34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men
out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not
that evil [was] near them.
JUD-20:35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the
children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty
and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
JUD-20:36 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.
JUD-20:37 And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah;
and the liers in wait drew [themselves] along, and smote all the
city with the edge of the sword.
JUD-20:38 Now there was an appointed sign between the men of
Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great
flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
JUD-20:39 And when the men of Israel retired in the battle,
Benjamin began to smite [and] kill of the men of Israel about
thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down
before us, as [in] the first battle.
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