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Judges 20:1
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Then all the children of Israel went out, and
the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the
land of Gilead, unto Jehovah at Mizpah. |
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| Judges 20:2 |
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And the chiefs 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. |
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| Judges 20:3 |
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(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the
children of Israel were gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Tell
us, how was this wickedness brought to pass? |
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| Judges 20:4 |
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And the Levite, the husband of the woman that
was murdered, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin,
I and my concubine, to lodge. |
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| Judges 20:5 |
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And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset
the house round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine
they forced, and she is dead. |
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| Judges 20:6 |
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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. |
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| Judges 20:7 |
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Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give
here your advice and counsel. |
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| Judges 20:8 |
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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 unto his
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| Judges 20:9 |
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But now this is the thing which we will do to
Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot; |
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| Judges 20:10 |
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and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout
all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten
thousand, to fetch victuals 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.
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| Judges 20:11 |
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So all the men of Israel were gathered against
the city, knit together as one man. |
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| Judges 20:12 |
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And the tribes of Israel sent men through all
the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is come to pass among
you? |
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| Judges 20:13 |
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Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows,
that are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel.
But Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of
Israel. |
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| Judges 20:14 |
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And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves
together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children
of Israel. |
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| Judges 20:15 |
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And the children of Benjamin were numbered on
that day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides
the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men. |
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| Judges 20:16 |
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Among all this people there were seven hundred
chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not
miss. |
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| Judges 20:17 |
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And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were
numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
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| Judges 20:18 |
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And the children of Israel arose, and went up
to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first
to battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up
first. |
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| Judges 20:19 |
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And the children of Israel rose up in the morning,
and encamped against Gibeah. |
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| Judges 20:20 |
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And the men of Israel went out to battle against
Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
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| Judges 20:21 |
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And the children of Benjamin came forth out
of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty
and two thousand men. |
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| Judges 20:22 |
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And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged
themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves
in array the first day. |
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| Judges 20:23 |
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And the children of Israel went up and wept
before Jehovah until even; and they asked of Jehovah, saying, Shall I again draw
nigh to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And Jehovah said,
Go up against him. |
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| Judges 20:24 |
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And the children of Israel came near against
the children of Benjamin the second day. |
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| Judges 20:25 |
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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. |
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| Judges 20:26 |
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Then all the children of Israel, and all the
people, went up, and came unto Beth-el, and wept, and sat there before Jehovah,
and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings
before Jehovah. |
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| Judges 20:27 |
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And the children of Israel asked of Jehovah
(for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, |
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| Judges 20:28 |
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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 Jehovah said,
Go up; for to-morrow I will deliver him into thy hand. |
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| Judges 20:29 |
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And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah
round about. |
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| Judges 20:30 |
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And the children of Israel went up against the
children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah,
as at other times. |
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| Judges 20:31 |
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And the children of Benjamin went out against
the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill
of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to Beth-el,
and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel. |
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| Judges 20:32 |
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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 away from the city unto the highways. |
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| Judges 20:33 |
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And all the men of Israel rose up out of their
place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel
brake forth out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba. |
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| Judges 20:34 |
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And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand
chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they knew not that
evil was close upon them. |
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| Judges 20:35 |
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And Jehovah smote Benjamin before Israel; and
the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand
and a hundred men: all these drew the sword. |
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| Judges 20:36 |
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So the children of Benjamin saw that they were
smitten; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted unto
the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah. |
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| Judges 20:37 |
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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. |
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| Judges 20:38 |
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Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel
and the liers-in-wait was, that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up
out of the city. |
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| Judges 20:39 |
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And the men of Israel turned in the battle,
and 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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| Judges 20:40 |
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But when the cloud began to arise up out of
the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold,
the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven. |
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| Judges 20:41 |
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And the men of Israel turned, and the men of
Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil was come upon them. |
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| Judges 20:42 |
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Therefore they turned their backs before the
men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after
them; and they that came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst thereof.
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| Judges 20:43 |
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They inclosed the Benjamites round about, and
chased them, and trod them down at their resting-place, as far as over against
Gibeah toward the sunrising. |
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| Judges 20:44 |
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And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand
men; all these were men of valor. |
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| Judges 20:45 |
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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 followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.
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| Judges 20:46 |
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So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were
twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.
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| Judges 20:47 |
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But six hundred men turned and fled toward the
wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.
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| Judges 20:48 |
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And the men of Israel turned again upon the
children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, both the entire
city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they
found they set on fire. |
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