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King James Version
Then all the Israelites
from
Dan
to
Beersheba
and
from
the
land
of Gilead
came
out, and the congregation assembled
as one man before
the LORD at
Mizpah
.
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
.
The leaders
of all the people and
all the tribes of Israel presented themselves in the assembly of God’s
people :
400,000
men
on
foot
, armed
with
swords
.
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
.
( Meanwhile
the Benjamites
heard that the Israelites
had
gone up to Mizpah
.) And
the Israelites
asked
, “
Tell us, how did
this wicked
thing
happen
? ”
( 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
?
So
the Levite, the husband of the murdered
woman, answered :
“I
and my
concubine
came to
Gibeah in
Benjamin to spend
the
night
.
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
.
And during
the night,
the
men of Gibeah rose up
against me and surrounded
the house .
They
intended
to
kill
me, but
they
abused
my concubine, and
she died
.
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
.
Then
I took my concubine, cut her into
pieces, and sent her throughout the land
of Israel’s
inheritance ,
because
they had
committed a
lewd
and disgraceful
act
in Israel.
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.
Behold, all you
Israelites,
give your advice and verdict
here
and
now
. ”
Behold, ye
are
all children
of
Israel;
give here
your advice and counsel
.
Then
all the people stood
as one man and
said
, “
Not one
of us will
return
to his tent or
to
his house.
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.
Now this is
what
we will do to Gibeah :
We will go against it as
the
lot
dictates.
But
now this shall
be
the
thing
which
we will do to Gibeah ;
we will go up
by
lot
against it ;
We will take ten men out
of every
hundred from
all the tribes of Israel, and a
hundred out
of every
thousand, and a thousand out of every
ten thousand, to supply
provisions
for the army
when they go
to Gibeah in
Benjamin to punish
them
for
the atrocity
they have committed
in Israel. ”
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.
So all the men of Israel gathered as
one
man,
united
against the city.
So all the men of Israel were
gathered against the city ,
knit
together
as
one
man
.
And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout
the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “
What is this wickedness
that has
occurred
among you?
And the tribes of Israel sent men through
all
the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness
is this that is
done
among you?
Hand
over
the wicked
men of Gibeah so
we can
put them to death and purge
Israel
of
this
evil. ”
But the Benjamites
refused
to heed
the voice of their fellow
Israelites
.
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
.
And
from
their
cities
they
came
together at
Gibeah to go out and
fight
against the Israelites
.
But
the
children
of
Benjamin
gathered
themselves
together out
of
the
cities
unto
Gibeah ,
to go out to
battle
against the children
of
Israel
.
On
that day
the Benjamites
mobilized
26,000
swordsmen
from
their
cities, in
addition
to
the 700
select
men
of Gibeah.
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
.
Among all these
soldiers
there were 700
select
left-handers,
each
of
whom
could sling a
stone
at a
hair without
missing
.
Among all this
people
there were seven
hundred
chosen
men
lefthanded;
every
one
could sling stones
at an
hair breadth,
and
not
miss
.
The Israelites
, apart
from
Benjamin, mobilized
400,000
swordsmen,
each
one
an
experienced
warrior
.
And
the men
of
Israel
, beside
Benjamin, were
numbered
four
hundred
thousand
men
that
drew
sword:
all
these
were
men
of
war
.
The Israelites
set
out
, went up to Bethel
, and inquired
of God, “Who
of us shall go up first to fight
against the Benjamites
? ”
“Judah
will
be
first,”
the LORD replied
.
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
.
The next
morning
the Israelites
set
out
and camped
near
Gibeah.
And
the children
of
Israel
rose
up
in
the morning,
and encamped
against
Gibeah.
And the men of Israel went out to fight
against Benjamin and took
up
their
battle
positions
at Gibeah.
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.
And the Benjamites
came out of Gibeah and cut
down 22,000
Israelites
on
the battlefield
that day.
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
.
But
the Israelite
army
took
courage
and again
took
their battle positions
in the same
place where they had
arrayed
themselves on
the first day.
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.
They
went up and wept before the LORD until evening
, inquiring
of Him
, “Should
we
again draw
near
for
battle against our
brothers
the Benjamites
? ”
And the LORD answered
, “
Go up against them
. ”
(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
. )
On
the
second
day
the Israelites
advanced
against the Benjamites
.
And
the children
of
Israel
came
near
against the children
of
Benjamin
the
second
day
.
That
same
day
the
Benjamites
came
out
against them from
Gibeah and cut
down another
18,000
Israelites,
all
of them
armed
with
swords
.
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
.
Then the Israelites
, all the people, went up to
Bethel
, where
they
sat weeping
before the LORD .
That day they
fasted
until evening
and presented
burnt offerings and peace offerings to
the LORD.
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.
And the Israelites
inquired of the LORD .
( In
those
days
the ark of the covenant of God was there,
And the children
of
Israel
inquired of the LORD ,
( for
the ark of the covenant of God was there in
those
days
,
and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served
before it .
) The
Israelites
asked
, “Should
we
again go out to battle against our
brothers
the Benjamites
, or should
we
stop
? ”
The LORD answered,
“Fight
, for tomorrow
I will deliver them into your
hand. ”
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.
So
Israel set up
an
ambush
around
Gibeah.
And
Israel set liers
in
wait
round
about
Gibeah.
On
the
third
day
the Israelites
went up against the Benjamites
and arrayed
themselves against Gibeah as they
had
done
before
.
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
.
The Benjamites
came
out against them
and were drawn away from the city .
They began to attack
the people as before
, killing
about
thirty
men
of
Israel
in the fields
and
on
the
roads
, one
of which led
up to Bethel
and the other to Gibeah.
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
.
“We
are defeating
them
as
before, ”
said
the Benjamites
. But the Israelites
said, “
Let us retreat
and draw them away
from the city onto
the roads
. ”
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
.
So
all the men of Israel got
up from
their places
and arrayed
themselves at Baal-tamar,
and the Israelites
in ambush
charged
from
their positions
west
of Gibeah.
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.
Then
10,000
select
men from
all Israel made
a
frontal
assault
against
Gibeah
, and the battle was fierce.
But the
Benjamites
did
not realize
that disaster
was upon
them.
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.
The LORD defeated
Benjamin in
the presence
of Israel ,
and
on
that
day
the Israelites
slaughtered
25,100
Benjamites ,
all armed
with
swords
.
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
.
Then
the Benjamites
realized
they had
been
defeated.
Now
the men of Israel had
retreated
before
Benjamin
because they were
relying
on
the ambush
they had set against
Gibeah.
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.
The men
in ambush
rushed suddenly
against
Gibeah; they
advanced
and put
the whole
city to
the sword.
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.
The men of Israel had
arranged
a
signal
with
the men
in ambush:
When
they sent
up
a great cloud
of
smoke from
the city ,
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 .
the men of Israel would
turn
in the battle .
When
the
Benjamites
had
begun
to
strike
them
down
, killing
about
thirty
men of Israel ,
they said, “
They are defeated
before us as in the first battle. ”
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.
But when the column
of
smoke
began to go
up from
the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw
the whole
city going
up in
smoke
.
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
.
Then
the men of Israel turned back
on
them
, and
the men of Benjamin were terrified
when
they realized
that disaster
had
come upon them.
And
when
the men of Israel turned again
, the men of Benjamin were amazed:
for
they saw
that evil
was
come upon them.
So
they fled
before the men of Israel toward
the wilderness ,
but the battle overtook them ,
and the
men
coming
out of the cities struck
them down
there
.
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.
They surrounded
the Benjamites, pursued
them, and easily
overtook
them in
the
vicinity
of
Gibeah on
the east
.
Thus
they inclosed
the Benjamites round
about
, and
chased
them, and trode
them down
with
ease
over
against
Gibeah toward
the sunrising
.
And 18,000
Benjamites
fell ,
all men of valor.
And there
fell of
Benjamin
eighteen
thousand
men;
all these
were
men of valor.
Then
the
Benjamites
turned and fled toward the wilderness to
the rock of Rimmon ,
and Israel
cut
down
5,000
men
on
the roads.
And they
overtook
them at
Gidom and
struck
down
2
, 000
more
.
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
.
That day
25,000
Benjamite
swordsmen
fell ,
all men of valor.
So
that all
which
fell that
day
of
Benjamin
were
twenty
and
five
thousand
men
that
drew
the
sword;
all these
were
men of valor.
But 600
men turned and fled into
the wilderness to
the rock of
Rimmon, where
they
stayed
four months.
But six
hundred
men turned and fled to
the wilderness unto
the rock Rimmon, and
abode
in
the
rock
Rimmon
four months.
And the men of Israel turned back
against
the other
Benjamites
and put
to
the sword all
the cities
, including
the animals
and
everything
else
they
found.
And they burned
down
all the cities in
their
path
.
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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