These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Judges 20
Tanakh 48 verses
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Then all the children of went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from even to Beer-sheba, with the land of , unto at Mizpah.
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And the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of , presented themselves in the of the people of , four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.—
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Now the children of heard that the children of were gone up to Mizpah.—And the children of said: ‘Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?’
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And the , the husband of the woman that was murdered, answered and said: ‘I came into Gibeah that belongeth to , I and my concubine, to lodge.
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And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they forced, and she is dead.
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And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of ; for they have committed lewdness and wantonness in
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- 7 Behold, ye are all here, children of , give here your advice and council.’
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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 unto his house.
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But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
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- 10 and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of , and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of , according to all the wantonness that they have wrought in .’
- 11 So all the men of were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
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And the tribes of sent men through all the tribe of , saying: ‘What wickedness is this that is come to pass among you?
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Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows that are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from .’ But the children of would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of .
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And the children of gathered themselves together out of their cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of .
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And the children of numbered on that day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered seven hundred chosen men.
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All this people, even seven hundred chosen men, were left-handed; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.
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And the men of , beside , numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these were men of war.
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- 18 And the children of arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of ; and they said: ‘Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of ?’ And said: ‘ first.’
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And the children of rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
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- 20 And the men of went out to battle against ; and the men of set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
- 21 And the children of came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.
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And the people, the men of , encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
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And the children of went up and wept before until even; and they asked of , saying: ‘Shall I again draw nigh to battle against the children of my brother?’ And said: ‘Go up against him.’
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- 24 And the children of came near against the children of the second day.
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And went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
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Then all the children of , and all the people, went up, and came unto Beth-el, and wept, and sat there before , and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt-offerings and -offerings before .
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And the children of asked of —for the of the of was there in those days,
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- 28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of , stood before it in those days—saying: ‘Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of my brother, or shall I cease?’ And said: ‘Go up; for to-morrow I will deliver him into thy hand.’
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And set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.
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- 30 And the children of went up against the children of on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
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And the children of went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, as at other times, in the field, in the highways, of which one goeth up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, about thirty men of .
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And the children of said: ‘They are smitten down before us, as at the first.’ But the children of said: ‘Let us flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.’
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And all the men of rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar; and the liers-in-wait of broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba.
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- 34 And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all , and the battle was sore; but they knew not that evil was close upon them.
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And smote before ; and the children of destroyed of that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men; all these drew the sword.
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So the children of saw that they were smitten. And the men of gave place to , because they trusted unto the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.—
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And the liers-in-wait hastened, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers-in-wait drew forth, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.
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Now there was an appointed sign between the men of and the liers-in-wait, that they should make a great beacon of smoke rise up out of the city.—
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And the men of turned in the battle, and began to smite and kill of the men of about thirty persons; for they said: ‘Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.’
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But when the beacon 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 .
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- 41 And the men of turned, and the men of were amazed; for they saw that evil was come upon them.
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Therefore they turned their backs before the men of unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and they that came out of the city destroyed them in the midst of the men of .
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They inclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and overtook them at their resting-place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrising.
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- 44 And there fell of eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.
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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 followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.
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So that all who fell that day of were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
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But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.
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And the men of turned back upon the children of , and smote 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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