Judges 20

¹Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 11:111 Sam 10:171 Sam 3:202 Sam 3:10Josh 22:12Judg 21:51 Sam 7:5-62 Sam 24:2Neh 8:11 Chr 21:2

²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 8:102 Kgs 3:26Judg 20:15Judg 20:172 Sam 24:9

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? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 19:22-27Luke 12:58-59Luke 14:31-32Matt 5:25Prov 22:3

⁴And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 19:15-28

⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 19:22Judg 19:25-26Gen 19:4-8Deut 22:24Ezek 22:10-11

⁶And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 19:29Josh 7:15Judg 19:23Gen 34:7Judg 20:102 Sam 13:12-13

⁷Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 19:301 Cor 5:10-121 Cor 5:11 Cor 5:6Deut 14:1-2Deut 4:6Exod 19:5-6Jas 1:5Josh 9:14Prov 20:18

⁸And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 9:10Judg 20:1Prov 21:3Judg 20:11Judg 21:1Judg 21:5

⁹But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 24:51 Sam 14:41-42Acts 1:26Jonah 1:7Josh 14:2Neh 11:1Prov 16:33

¹⁰And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹¹So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹²And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 13:14Josh 22:13-16Deut 20:10Matt 18:15-18Rom 12:18

¹³Now 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: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 17:12Deut 13:13Judg 19:221 Kgs 21:131 Sam 2:251 Sam 30:222 Chr 13:72 Chr 25:162 Chr 25:202 Sam 20:1

¹⁴But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 20:202 Chr 13:13Job 15:25-26Num 21:23

¹⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 26:41Num 1:37Judg 20:25Judg 20:35Judg 20:46-47

¹⁶Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 3:151 Chr 12:21 Sam 17:401 Sam 17:49-501 Sam 25:292 Chr 26:14

¹⁷And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 21:51 Sam 11:81 Sam 15:42 Chr 17:14-18Judg 20:2Num 1:46Num 26:51

¹⁸And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:23Judg 20:26-27Num 27:21Gen 49:8-10Num 27:5Joel 1:14Josh 18:1Josh 9:14Judg 1:1-2Judg 18:31

¹⁹And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 3:1Josh 6:12Josh 7:16

²⁰And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Hos 10:9Jer 12:1Judg 20:252 Chr 28:10Deut 23:9Eccl 9:1-3Gen 49:27Ps 33:16Ps 73:18-19Ps 77:19

²²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 30:62 Sam 11:25Judg 20:15Judg 20:17Ps 64:5

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.) Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:26-27Hos 5:15Josh 7:6Ps 78:34-36Judg 20:18

²⁴And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:21Rom 11:33Gen 18:25Job 9:12-13Ps 97:2Rom 2:5Rom 3:5

²⁶Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:23Joel 2:12-18Ezra 8:21Ezra 9:4-5Judg 20:181 Sam 7:62 Chr 20:3Joel 1:14Jonah 3:5-10

²⁷And the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 4:3-4Josh 18:1Judg 20:18Isa 59:1Jer 7:12Judg 20:23Num 27:21Ps 78:60-61

²⁸And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 7:9Deut 18:5Josh 24:33Deut 10:81 Sam 14:371 Sam 23:4-121 Sam 30:82 Chr 20:172 Sam 5:19-242 Sam 6:3

²⁹And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:42 Sam 5:23Judg 20:34

³⁰And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

³¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:14-16Isa 10:29Josh 7:5Judg 19:13-14

³²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:15-16

³³And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal–tamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:18-22

³⁴And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 47:11Josh 8:14Job 21:131 Thess 5:3Eccl 8:11-12Eccl 9:12Isa 3:10-11Luke 21:34Matt 24:44Prov 29:6

³⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 20:5Judg 20:15Judg 20:44-46

³⁶So 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:15-29

³⁷And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:19Exod 19:13Josh 6:5

³⁸Now 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Kgs 4:16Gen 17:21Josh 8:20

³⁹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:32

⁴⁰But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:20Joel 2:30Rev 19:3Gen 19:28Song 3:6

⁴¹And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Thess 5:32 Pet 2:12Luke 17:27-28Luke 21:26Exod 15:9-10Isa 13:8-9Isa 33:14Rev 18:8-10Rev 6:15-17

⁴²Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:24Hos 10:9Hos 9:9Josh 8:15Lam 1:3

⁴³Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 8:20-22

⁴⁴And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

⁴⁵And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 15:32Judg 21:131 Chr 6:77Zech 14:10

⁴⁶So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:15Judg 20:35

⁴⁷But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 14:7Hab 3:2Isa 1:9Judg 21:13Lam 3:32Ps 103:9-10

⁴⁸And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 13:15-172 Chr 25:132 Chr 28:6-9Prov 18:19