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Book 07 : JUDGES - Chapter 020

020:001

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

020:002

(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

020:003

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

020:004

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

020:005

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

020:006

Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel

020:007

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

020:008

But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it

020:009

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

020:010

So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man

020:011

And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you

020:012

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

020:013

But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel

020:014

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

020:015

Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss

020:016

And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war

020:017

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

020:018

And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah

020:019

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

020:020

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

020:021

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

020:022

(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.

020:023

And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day

020:024

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

020:025

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

020:026

And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days

020:027

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

020:028

And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah

020:029

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

020:030

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

020:031

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

020:032

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

020:033

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

020:034

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

020:035

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

020:036

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

020:037

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

020:038

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

020:039

But 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

020:040

And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them

020:041

Therefore 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

020:042

Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trode them down with ease over against Gibeah toward the sunrising

020:043

And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour

020:044

And 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

020:045

So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour

020:046

But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months

020:047

And 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


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