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And the sons of Israel said, Tell <i>us,</i> how did this wickedness take place? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>So the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, I came with my concubine to spend the night at Gibeah which belongs to Benjamin. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>But the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house at night because of me. They intended to kill me; instead, they ravished my concubine so that she died. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>And I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout the land of Israels inheritance; for they have committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, all you sons of Israel, give your advice and counsel here.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Then all the people arose as one man, saying, Not one of us will go to his tent, nor will any of us return to his house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah; <i>we will go up</i> against it by lot. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>And we will take 10 men out of 100 throughout the tribes of Israel, and 100 out of 1,000, and 1,000 out of 10,000 to supply food for the people, that when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, they may punish <i>them</i> for all the disgraceful acts that they have committed in Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Thus all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united as one man.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the tribes of Israel sent men through the entire tribe of Benjamin, saying, What is this wickedness that has taken place among you? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Now then, deliver up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and remove <i>this</i> wickedness from Israel. But the sons of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the sons of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>The sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the sons of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>From the cities on that day the sons of Benjamin were numbered, 26,000 men who draw the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah who were numbered, 700 choice men. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Out of all these people 700 choice men were left-handed; each one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Then the men of Israel besides Benjamin were numbered, 400,000 men who draw the sword; all these were men of war.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Civil War, Benjamin Defeated</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Now the sons of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God and said, Who shall go up first for us to battle against the sons of Benjamin? Then the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said, Judah <i>shall go up</i> first.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>So the sons of Israel arose in the morning and camped against Gibeah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel arrayed for battle against them at Gibeah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Then the sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and felled to the ground on that day 22,000 men of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>But the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves and arrayed for battle again in the place where they had arrayed themselves the first day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>The sons of Israel went up and wept before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> until evening, and inquired of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, saying, Shall we again draw near for battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin? And the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said, Go up against him.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the sons of Israel came against the sons of Benjamin the second day. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah the second day and felled to the ground again 18,000 men of the sons of Israel; all these drew the sword. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Then all the sons of Israel and all the people went up and came to Bethel and wept; thus they remained there before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> and fasted that day until evening. And they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>The sons of Israel inquired of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> (for the ark of the covenant of God <i>was</i> there in those days, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, Aarons son, stood before it to <i>minister</i> in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin, or shall I cease? And the L<font size="1">ORD</font> said, Go up, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>The sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as at other times. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>The sons of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city, and they began to strike and kill some of the people as at other times, on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, <i>and</i> in the field, about thirty men of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>The sons of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the sons of Israel said, Let us flee that we may draw them away from the city to the highways. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>Then all the men of Israel arose from their place and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar; and the men of Israel in ambush broke out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>When ten thousand choice men from all Israel came against Gibeah, the battle became fierce; but Benjamin did not know that disaster was close to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>And the L<font size="1">ORD</font> struck Benjamin before Israel, so that the sons of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day, all who draw the sword.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>So the sons of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. When the men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin because they relied on the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush also deployed and struck all the city with the edge of the sword. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that they would make a great cloud of smoke rise from the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>Then the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel, for they said, Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>But when the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, Benjamin looked behind them; and behold, the whole city was going up <i>in smoke</i> to heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were terrified; for they saw that disaster was close to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>Therefore, they turned their backs before the men of Israel toward the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them while those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>They surrounded Benjamin, pursued them without rest <i>and</i> trod them down opposite Gibeah toward the east. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>Thus 18,000 men of Benjamin fell; all these were valiant warriors. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>The rest turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, but they caught 5,000 of them on the highways and overtook them at Gidom and killed 2,000 of them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>So all of Benjamin who fell that day were 25,000 men who draw the sword; all these were valiant warriors. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon four months. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/20-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>The men of Israel then turned back against the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found; they also set on fire all the cities which they found.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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