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Judges 20:1
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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. |
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| Judges 20:2 |
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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. |
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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 Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel,
Tell us, how was this wickedness? |
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| Judges 20:4 |
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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. |
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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 upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine
have they forced, that 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 are all children of Israel; 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 into his
house. |
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| Judges 20:9 |
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But now this shall be the thing which we will
do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it; |
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| Judges 20:10 |
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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. |
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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 done among you? |
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| Judges 20:13 |
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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. |
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| Judges 20:14 |
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But 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
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. |
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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 an hair breadth, and not
miss. |
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| Judges 20:17 |
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And the men of Israel, beside 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 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. |
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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 put themselves in array to fight 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 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 their battle again in array in the place where they put 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 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.) |
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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 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. |
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| Judges 20:27 |
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And the children of Israel enquired of the LORD,
(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 the LORD said,
Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand. |
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| Judges 20:29 |
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And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah. |
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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 put 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 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. |
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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 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 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. |
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| Judges 20:34 |
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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. |
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| Judges 20:35 |
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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. |
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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 the Benjamites, because they trusted
unto the liers in wait which they had set beside 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 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. |
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| Judges 20:39 |
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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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| Judges 20:40 |
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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. |
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| Judges 20:41 |
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And when the men of Israel turned again, the
men of Benjamin were amazed: 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 overtook them; and
them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them. |
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| Judges 20:43 |
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Thus they inclosed the Benjamites round about,
and chased them, and trode them down with ease 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 valour. |
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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 pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them. |
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| Judges 20:46 |
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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. |
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| Judges 20:47 |
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But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness
unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock 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, 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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