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Judges 20 Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
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They sought to kill me, and they violated my Concubine and she died <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>And I took my Concubine and I cut her in pieces and I sent her to all the estates of the inheritance of Israel, because they had done sin and evil in Israel <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, all of you sons of Israel, give an answer and counsel on this!”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>And all the people stood as one man and they were saying: “No man shall go to his tent and no man shall turn away to his house! <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Now thus we shall do to Gebah, we shall cast lots against it <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>We will take ten men for a hundred for all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred for a thousand and a thousand for ten thousand, that they would take provisions to the people who cross over to go against Gebah of Benyamin, according to all the evil that they have done in Israel!” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>And all the men of Israel assembled against the city as one man, as they were in agreement<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>And all the tribes of Israel sent men to the entire house of Benjamin, saying: “What is this evil that has come upon you? <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Now give the men, the sons of evil that are in Gabah. We will kill them and we will remove evil from Israel.” And the sons of Benjamin did not choose to listen to the voice of their brothers the sons of Israel <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>And all the sons of Benjamin assembled from their city to Gebah to go out and to fight with the sons of Israel <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>And the sons of Benjamin in that day from the cities were numbered twenty and six thousand men drawing a sword, apart from the dwellers of Gebah who were numbered seven hundred men <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Everyone whose right hands were maimed, who threw with a sling against a strong wind and did not miss<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>And the men of Israel were numbered apart from the sons of Benjamin, four hundred thousand men drawing a sword, all men, workers of war<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>And they stood and came up to Bayth Eil and they inquired of God and the sons of Israel were saying: “Who shall go up for us at first to fight with the sons of Benjamin?” and LORD JEHOVAH said, “Yehuda first”<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel arose at dawn and they camped against Gebah, and the sons of Benjamin went out from Gebah to fight with the sons of Israel, and the sons of Israel arrayed war with them against Gebah <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-20.htm#aramaic"><b></b></a></span> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>And the sons of Benjamin went out from Gebah and were arrayed against Israel, and they cast down of Israel who battled with them on that day, twenty two thousand men to the ground <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel were strengthened again, and they went again to array for war in the place where they were arrayed on the first day <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel went up and they wept before LORD JEHOVAH until evening, and they inquired of LORD JEHOVAH and they were saying: “Shall we again bring battle with the sons of Benjamin our brother?” And LORD JEHOVAH said: “Go up against him”<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel approached with the sons of Benjamin the next day <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>And the sons of Benjamin went out against them from Gebah on the second day; again the sons of Benjamin cast down from Israel eighteen thousand men to the ground, all these drawing a sword <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>And all the sons of Israel came up, and all the people, and they came to Bayth Eil and they wept and they stayed there before LORD JEHOVAH and they fasted on that day until evening, and they offered up sacrifices and peace offerings before LORD JEHOVAH <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel inquired of LORD JEHOVAH, and the Ark of LORD JEHOVAH was there in those days <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>And Phinkhas, son of Eliazer, son of Aaron the Priest, was standing before it in those days, and they were saying: “Shall we again go out to battle against the sons of Benjamin our brother or shall we cease?” And LORD JEHOVAH said: “Go up, for tomorrow I shall deliver him into your hands”<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel set an ambush against Gebah and they surrounded it <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel went up against the sons of Benjamin on the third day, and they were arrayed against Gebah as at all times <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>And the sons of Benjamin went out for the meeting of the people, and they emptied out from the city and they began to cast down the people slain, as at all times, in the streets, one of which went up to Gebah, and one to Bayth Eil, into a field, about thirty men of Israel <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-32.htm#aramaic"><b>32</b></a></span>And the sons of Benjamin said: “They are defeated from before us as at the first!” And the sons of Israel said: “Let us escape, and we will lead them out from the city to the streets!” <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-33.htm#aramaic"><b>33</b></a></span>And all the sons of Israel rose up from their places and were arrayed at Baal Tamar, and the ambush of Israel was looking out from its place from a cave that was in Gebah <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-34.htm#aramaic"><b>34</b></a></span>And ten thousand men came from next to Gebah, chosen men of all Israel, and the battle was severe, and they did not know that evil had fallen upon them <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-35.htm#aramaic"><b>35</b></a></span>And LORD JEHOVAH broke Benyamin before Israel and cast down those of the house of Israel, of the house of Benjamin, in that day, twenty and five thousand and one hundred men, all these drawing a sword<p> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-36.htm#aramaic"><b>36</b></a></span>And the sons of Benjamin saw that they were defeated and the sons of Israel gave place to the men of Benyamin, because they trusted in the ambush that they had set against Gebah <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-37.htm#aramaic"><b>37</b></a></span>And the ambush quietly fell on Gebah and the ambush walked and struck all the city with the mouth of the sword <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-38.htm#aramaic"><b>38</b></a></span>And there was a signal to the men of Israel with the ambush, to send them up as smoke would go up from the city <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-39.htm#aramaic"><b>39</b></a></span>And the men of Israel returned from battle and Benjamin began to cast down thirty men, slain of Israel, because they said: “Surely they are defeated from before us, as in the first battle!” <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-40.htm#aramaic"><b>40</b></a></span>And smoke began to go up from the city like a pillar, and the sons of Benjamin turned their back, and behold, dense smoke of the city went up unto Heaven <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-41.htm#aramaic"><b>41</b></a></span>And the men of Israel turned against them, and the men of Benyamin were afraid, because they saw that evil had come upon them <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-42.htm#aramaic"><b>42</b></a></span>And they fled from before the sons of Israel to the way of the wilderness, and the battle overtook them, and those at the front placed them in the midst <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-43.htm#aramaic"><b>43</b></a></span>And they pursued Benyamin and they expelled him, and with ease they slew him unto Gebah from the dawning of the sun <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-44.htm#aramaic"><b>44</b></a></span>And eighteen thousand men of the sons of Benjamin fell, all these men were warriors <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-45.htm#aramaic"><b>45</b></a></span>And they turned and fled to the wilderness to the cliff of Ramun, and five thousand men drawing a sword fell in the roads, and they pursued after them unto Gebuun, and they killed two thousand men with the sword <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-46.htm#aramaic"><b>46</b></a></span>And all who fell of the sons of Benjamin on that day were twenty and five thousand men drawing a sword, all of them mighty men <A name="48"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-47.htm#aramaic"><b>47</b></a></span>And they turned and fled to the wilderness to the cliff of Ramun, six hundred men, and they stayed at the cliff of Ramun four months <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/judges/20-48.htm#aramaic"><b>48</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel turned against the sons of Benjamin, and they struck them with the mouth of the sword and they finished them from the cities, of the children of men and unto beast and unto everyone who was found, also, all the cities that were found they burned in fire <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated<br>Translated by Glenn David Bauscher<br>Glenn David Bauscher<br>Lulu Publishing<br>Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing<br>3rd edition Copyright © 2019<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../judges/19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Judges 19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Judges 19" /></a></div><div 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