Judges 20

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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.63 cross-references: Judges 11:11, Joshua 22:12, 1 Samuel 10:17, 1 Samuel 3:20, Judges 21:5
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.11 cross-references: Judges 8:10, Judges 20:15, Judges 20:17, 2 Samuel 24:9, 2 Kings 3:26
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?6 cross-references: Judges 19:22–27, Matthew 5:25, Luke 12:58–59, Proverbs 22:3, Luke 14:31–32
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.3 cross-references: Judges 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.9 cross-references: Judges 19:22, Judges 19:25–26, Deuteronomy 22:24, Genesis 19:4–8, Ezekiel 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.13 cross-references: Judges 19:29, Judges 19:23, Joshua 7:15, Genesis 34:7, Judges 20:10
7Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.15 cross-references: Judges 19:30, 1 Corinthians 5:1, Deuteronomy 4:6, Joshua 9:14, Proverbs 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.10 cross-references: Judges 20:1, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Proverbs 21:3, Judges 20:11, Judges 21:1
9But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;9 cross-references: Proverbs 16:33, 1 Samuel 14:41–42, Nehemiah 11:1, Joshua 14:2, 1 Chronicles 24:5
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.
11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?6 cross-references: Deuteronomy 13:14, Romans 12:18, Matthew 18:15–18, Deuteronomy 20:10, Joshua 22:13–16
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:28 cross-references: Judges 19:22, Deuteronomy 17:12, Deuteronomy 13:13, 2 Samuel 23:6, Ecclesiastes 11:10
14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.5 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 13:13, Numbers 21:23, Job 15:25–26, Numbers 20:20
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.10 cross-references: Numbers 26:41, Judges 20:25, Judges 20:46–47, Judges 20:35, Numbers 1:37
16Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.10 cross-references: Judges 3:15, 1 Chronicles 12:2, 1 Samuel 17:49–50, 2 Chronicles 26:14, 1 Samuel 25:29
17And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.11 cross-references: 1 Samuel 11:8, Numbers 1:46, Judges 20:2, 1 Chronicles 21:5, 2 Chronicles 17:14–18
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.31 cross-references: Judges 20:23, Judges 20:26–27, Numbers 27:21, Joshua 9:14, Genesis 49:8–10
19And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.3 cross-references: Joshua 3:1, Joshua 6:12, Joshua 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.
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.12 cross-references: Judges 20:25, Psalms 73:18–19, Jeremiah 12:1, Ecclesiastes 9:1–3, 2 Chronicles 28:10
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.5 cross-references: 1 Samuel 30:6, Judges 20:17, Psalms 64:5, 2 Samuel 11:25, Judges 20:15
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.)21 cross-references: Judges 20:26–27, Hosea 5:15, Joshua 7:6, Psalms 78:34–36, Judges 20:18
24And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
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.11 cross-references: Judges 20:21, Genesis 18:25, Psalms 97:2, Romans 3:5, Job 9:12–13
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.25 cross-references: Judges 20:23, Joel 2:12–18, Ezra 8:21, Ezra 9:4–5, Judges 20:18
27And the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,16 cross-references: Joshua 18:1, Judges 20:18, 1 Samuel 4:3–4, Judges 20:23, Jeremiah 7:12
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.31 cross-references: Judges 7:9, Deuteronomy 18:5, Joshua 24:33, Deuteronomy 10:8, 1 Samuel 14:37
29And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.7 cross-references: Joshua 8:4, Judges 20:34, 2 Samuel 5:23
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.
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.6 cross-references: Joshua 8:14–16, Isaiah 10:29, Joshua 7:5, Judges 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.4 cross-references: Joshua 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.3 cross-references: Joshua 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.14 cross-references: Joshua 8:14, Job 21:13, Isaiah 47:11, Ecclesiastes 9:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:3
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.7 cross-references: Job 20:5, Judges 20:15, Judges 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.4 cross-references: Joshua 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.3 cross-references: Joshua 8:19, Exodus 19:13, Joshua 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.4 cross-references: 2 Kings 4:16, Joshua 8:20, Genesis 17:21
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.2 cross-references: Judges 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.8 cross-references: Joshua 8:20, Revelation 19:3, Joel 2:30, Song of Solomon 3:6, Genesis 19:28
41And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.11 cross-references: Exodus 15:9–10, Isaiah 33:14, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Luke 17:27–28, Isaiah 13:8–9
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.7 cross-references: Hosea 10:9, Joshua 8:15, Lamentations 1:3, Hosea 9:9, Joshua 8:24
43Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.2 cross-references: Joshua 8:20–22
44And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
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.5 cross-references: Joshua 15:32, Judges 21:13, Zechariah 14:10, 1 Chronicles 6:77
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.5 cross-references: Judges 20:15, Judges 20:35
47But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.9 cross-references: Isaiah 1:9, Lamentations 3:32, Jeremiah 14:7, Judges 21:13, Habakkuk 3:2
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.6 cross-references: Deuteronomy 13:15–17, Proverbs 18:19, 2 Chronicles 28:6–9, 2 Chronicles 25:13

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People in Judges 20

Benjamin, Jacob, God, Dan, Judah, Phinehas, Eleazar, Aaron

Places in Judges 20

Gibeah, Bethel, Mizpah, Rimmon, Dan, Beersheba, Gilead, Baal-tamar, Maareh-geba, Gidom