Thematic Bible
Judges 20:1 (show verse)
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
the Armies of israel » Collected by » Extraordinary means
Beer-sheba » The most southern city of palestine
Congregation » The assembling of
Dan » A city » A city of the tribe of dan » Also called laish, and leshem
Mizpah » In benjamin
Mizpah » A city » Allotted » tribe of Benjamin » israelites » Assemble
Worship » Choirs assist in » Congregations gather for
Beer-sheba » The most southern city of palestine
Congregation » The assembling of
Dan » A city » A city of the tribe of dan » Also called laish, and leshem
Mizpah » In benjamin
Mizpah » A city » Allotted » tribe of Benjamin » israelites » Assemble
Worship » Choirs assist in » Congregations gather for
Judges 20:2 (show verse)
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 who drew sword.
Judges 20:3 (show verse)
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?"
Judges 20:4 (show verse)
The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, "I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
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Judges 20:5 (show verse)
The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They thought to have slain me, and they forced my concubine, and she is dead.
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Judges 20:6 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel."
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Judges 20:8 (show verse)
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 to his house.
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Judges 20:9 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel."
Judges 20:11 (show verse)
So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
Judges 20:12 (show verse)
The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that is happen among you?
Judges 20:13 (show verse)
Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel." But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.
Judges 20:14 (show verse)
The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
Judges 20:15 (show verse)
The children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
Judges 20:16 (show verse)
Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; everyone could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
Judges 20:17 (show verse)
The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.
Judges 20:18 (show verse)
The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, "Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?" Yahweh said, "Judah [shall go up] first."
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
Beth-el » A city » A city north of jerusalem » Tabernacle at, and called house of God
The tribe of Judah » Went first against gibeah
Tabernacle » Pitched » At shiloh
Urim and thummim » Instances of consulting God by
Urim and thummim » Israelites consult
Beth-el » A city » A city north of jerusalem » Tabernacle at, and called house of God
The tribe of Judah » Went first against gibeah
Tabernacle » Pitched » At shiloh
Urim and thummim » Instances of consulting God by
Urim and thummim » Israelites consult
Judges 20:19 (show verse)
The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
Judges 20:20 (show verse)
The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
Judges 20:21 (show verse)
The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.
Judges 20:22 (show verse)
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.
Judges 20:23 (show verse)
The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?" Yahweh said, "Go up against him."
Judges 20:24 (show verse)
The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
Judges 20:25 (show verse)
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.
Judges 20:26 (show verse)
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
Fasting » National--exemplified
Fasting » Examples of » moses
Fasting » Instances of » Of the israelites » Conflict » tribe of Benjamin
Peace offerings » Was offered » By israel after their defeat
Tabernacle » Pitched » At shiloh
Fasting » National--exemplified
Fasting » Examples of » moses
Fasting » Instances of » Of the israelites » Conflict » tribe of Benjamin
Peace offerings » Was offered » By israel after their defeat
Tabernacle » Pitched » At shiloh
Judges 20:27 (show verse)
The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Ark » In the tabernacle. Called the ark » An oracle of God
Ark » In the tabernacle. Called the ark » Set up in shiloh
Ark of the covenant » The israelites inquired of the lord before
the Armies of israel » Before going to war » Consulted the lord
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
Enquiring of God » General examples of
Inquiring of God » General examples of
Tabernacle » Pitched » At shiloh
Ark » In the tabernacle. Called the ark » Set up in shiloh
Ark of the covenant » The israelites inquired of the lord before
the Armies of israel » Before going to war » Consulted the lord
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
Enquiring of God » General examples of
Inquiring of God » General examples of
Tabernacle » Pitched » At shiloh
Judges 20:28 (show verse)
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?" Yahweh said, "Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand."
Ark » In the tabernacle. Called the ark » An oracle of God
Ark » In the tabernacle. Called the ark » Set up in shiloh
the Armies of israel » Before going to war » Consulted the lord
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
Phinehas » Mediator in behalf of the people
Urim and thummim » Instances of consulting God by
Ark » In the tabernacle. Called the ark » Set up in shiloh
the Armies of israel » Before going to war » Consulted the lord
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
Phinehas » Mediator in behalf of the people
Urim and thummim » Instances of consulting God by
Judges 20:29 (show verse)
Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
Judges 20:30 (show verse)
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.
Judges 20:31 (show verse)
The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Ambush » Instances of » At gibeah
Armies » March in ranks » Decoy
Armies » March in ranks » Ambushes at gibeah
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
Beth-el » A city » A city north of jerusalem » Tabernacle at, and called house of God
Gibeah » Gibeah in the field
Roads » To the house of God
Strategy » In war
Armies » March in ranks » Decoy
Armies » March in ranks » Ambushes at gibeah
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
Beth-el » A city » A city north of jerusalem » Tabernacle at, and called house of God
Gibeah » Gibeah in the field
Roads » To the house of God
Strategy » In war
Judges 20:32 (show verse)
The children of Benjamin said, "They are struck down before us, as at the first." But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways."
Judges 20:33 (show verse)
All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the ambushers of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
Judges 20:34 (show verse)
There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.
Judges 20:35 (show verse)
Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Ambush » Instances of » At gibeah
Armies » March in ranks » Decoy
Armies » March in ranks » Ambushes at gibeah
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
Rape » Instances of » Of the servant of a levite, by benjamites; the tribe of benjamin nearly exterminated by the army of the other tribes, punishment for
Strategy » In war
Armies » March in ranks » Decoy
Armies » March in ranks » Ambushes at gibeah
tribe of Benjamin » Almost annihilated for protecting the men of gibeah
Rape » Instances of » Of the servant of a levite, by benjamites; the tribe of benjamin nearly exterminated by the army of the other tribes, punishment for
Strategy » In war
Judges 20:36 (show verse)
So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.
Judges 20:37 (show verse)
The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the ambushers drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
Judges 20:38 (show verse)
Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
Judges 20:39 (show verse)
The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, "Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle."
Judges 20:40 (show verse)
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 the sky.
Judges 20:41 (show verse)
The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.
Judges 20:42 (show verse)
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in its midst.
Judges 20:43 (show verse)
They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, [and] trod them down at [their] resting place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrise.
Judges 20:44 (show verse)
There fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these [were] men of valor.
Judges 20:45 (show verse)
They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.
Judges 20:46 (show verse)
So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all these [were] men of valor.
Judges 20:47 (show verse)
But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.
Judges 20:48 (show verse)
The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the livestock, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.