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JUD-20:1 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.
JUD-20:2 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.
JUD-20:3 (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?
JUD-20:4 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.
JUD-20:5 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.
JUD-20:6 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.
JUD-20:7 Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel; give here your
advice and counsel.
JUD-20:8 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.
JUD-20:9 But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to
Gibeah; [we will go up] by lot against it;
JUD-20:10 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.
JUD-20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the
city, knit together as one man.
JUD-20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the
tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is
done among you?
JUD-20:13 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:
JUD-20:14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves
together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle
against the children of Israel.
JUD-20:15 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.
JUD-20:16 Among all this people [there were] seven hundred
chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair
[breadth], and not miss.
JUD-20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered
four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these [were] men
of war.
JUD-20:18 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.
JUD-20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and
encamped against Gibeah.
JUD-20:20 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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