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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
assembled as one man ,
from
Dan
even
to
Beersheba,
with
the land
of
Gilead,
to
Yahweh
at Mizpah.
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
.
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
.
( 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
had gone up to Mizpah.) The children
of
Israel
said
, Tell us, how was
this wickedness
brought
to
pass
?
So
the Levite, the husband of the murdered
woman, answered :
“
I and
my
concubine
came to
Gibeah in
Benjamin to spend
the
night
.
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
.
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
.
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
.
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.
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, you
children
of
Israel,
all of
you, 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.
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.
Now this is what
we will do to Gibeah: We will go against it as
the
lot dictates.
But
now this is the
thing
which
we will do to Gibeah: [
we will go up]
against it by
lot ;
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 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.
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?
The tribes of Israel sent men through
all
the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness
is this that is
happen
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
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
.
And
from
their
cities
they
came
together at
Gibeah to go out and
fight
against the Israelites
.
The
children
of
Benjamin
gathered
themselves
together out
of
the
cities
to
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.
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
.
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
left- handed;
everyone
could sling stones
at a hair -breadth,
and
not
miss
.
The Israelites
, apart
from
Benjamin, mobilized
400,000
swordsmen,
each
one
an
experienced
warrior
.
The men
of
Israel
, besides
Benjamin, were
numbered
four
hundred
thousand
men
who
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
.
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.
The next
morning
the Israelites
set
out
and camped
near
Gibeah.
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.
The men of Israel went out to battle
against Benjamin ;
and the
men
of
Israel
set
the
battle in
array
against
them
at Gibeah.
And
the Benjamites
came out of Gibeah and cut
down 22,000
Israelites on the
battlefield
that day.
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
.
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.
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.
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
. ”
The
children
of
Israel
went up and wept before Yahweh
until even;
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
.
On
the second
day
the
Israelites
advanced
against the Benjamites
.
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
.
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
to Bethel, and
wept,
and
sat there
before Yahweh,
and
fasted
that day until even;
and they
offered
burnt -
offerings and peace -
offerings before
Yahweh
.
And
the Israelites
inquired
of the
LORD.
( In
those
days
the ark of the covenant of God was there,
The children
of Israel
asked
of
Yahweh
( 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
? Yahweh
said
, Go
up;
for tomorrow I will deliver him
into your hand.
So
Israel set up
an
ambush
around
Gibeah.
Israel set liers-in-wait
against
Gibeah round
about
.
On
the third
day
the
Israelites
went up against the Benjamites
and arrayed
themselves against Gibeah as they
had
done
before
.
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
.
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.
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
.
“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
. ”
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
.
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
.
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
broke
forth
out
of
their place,
even
out
of Maareh
Geba
.
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.
There
came
over
against
Gibeah
ten
thousand
chosen
men out
of
all Israel, and the battle was sore;
but they
didn't
know
that evil
was close
on
them.
The
LORD
defeated
Benjamin in
the presence
of Israel ,
and
on
that day the
Israelites
slaughtered
25,100
Benjamites,
all armed
with
swords
.
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
.
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
struck;
for
the men of Israel gave
place
to
Benjamin ,
because they trusted
to
the liers-in-wait
whom
they had set against Gibeah.
The men
in ambush
rushed suddenly
against
Gibeah; they
advanced
and put
the whole
city to
the sword.
The liers-
in -wait
hurried,
and
rushed on
Gibeah; and the liers-in-wait
drew
themselves
along,
and
struck
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
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 .
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. ”
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.
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 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
.
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.
The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed;
for
they saw
that evil
had come on
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 to
the way
of
the
wilderness ;
but the battle followed
hard
after
them ;
and those
who
came
out of the cities destroyed
them in
the
midst
of
it
.
They surrounded
the Benjamites, pursued
them, and easily
overtook
them in
the
vicinity
of
Gibeah on
the east
.
They enclosed
the Benjamites round
about
, [and]
chased
them, [
and ]
trod
them down
at
[their]
resting-place,
as
far
as
over
against
Gibeah toward
the sunrise
.
And
18,000
Benjamites
fell ,
all men of valor.
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
.
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
.
That day
25,000
Benjamite
swordsmen
fell ,
all men of valor.
So
that all
who
fell that
day
of
Benjamin
were
twenty-five
thousand
men
who
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 toward
the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and
abode
in
the
rock
of
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
.
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 cattle,
and all
that
they found :
moreover
all the cities which
they
found
they
set
on
fire
.
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