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1Then 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.
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1Then all the People of Israel came out. The congregation met in the presence of God at Mizpah. They were all there, from Dan to Beersheba, as one person!
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2The 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.
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2The leaders of all the people, representing all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the gathering of God's people. There were 400 divisions of sword-wielding infantry.
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3(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?”
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3Meanwhile the Benjaminites got wind that the Israelites were meeting at Mizpah.The People of Israel said, "Now tell us. How did this outrageous evil happen?"
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4The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
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4The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, spoke: "My concubine and I came to spend the night at Gibeah, a Benjaminite town.
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5The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me, and they raped my concubine, and she is dead.
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5That night the men of Gibeah came after me. They surrounded the house, intending to kill me. They gang-raped my concubine and she died.
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6I 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.
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6So I took my concubine, cut up her body, and sent her piece by piece—twelve pieces!—to every part of Israel's inheritance. This vile and outrageous crime was committed in Israel!
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7Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”
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7So, Israelites, make up your minds. Decide on some action!"
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8All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.
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8All the people were at once and as one person on their feet. "None of us will go home; not a single one of us will go to his own house.
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9But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;
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9Here's our plan for dealing with Gibeah: We'll march against it by drawing lots.
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10and 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.”
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10We'll take ten of every hundred men from all the tribes of Israel (a hundred of every thousand, and a thousand of every ten thousand) to carry food for the army. When the troops arrive at Gibeah they will settle accounts for this outrageous and vile evil that was done in Israel."
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11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
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11So all the men in Israel were gathered against the city, totally united.
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12The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that is happen among you?
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12The Israelite tribes sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin saying, "What's the meaning of this outrage that took place among you?
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13Now 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.
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13Surrender the men right here and now, these hell-raisers of Gibeah. We'll put them to death and burn the evil out of Israel."But they wouldn't do it. The Benjaminites refused to listen to their brothers, the People of Israel.
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14The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
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14Instead they raised an army from all their cities and rallied at Gibeah to go to war against the People of Israel.
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15The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred chosen men.
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15In no time at all they had recruited from their cities twenty-six divisions of sword-wielding infantry. From Gibeah they got 700 hand-picked fighters, the best.
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16Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
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16There were another 700 super marksmen who were ambidextrous—they could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
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17The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these were men of war.
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17The men of Israel, excluding Benjamin, mobilized 400 divisions of sword-wielding fighting men.
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18The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” Yahweh said, “Judah first.”
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18They set out and went to Bethel to inquire of God. The People of Israel said, "Who of us shall be first to go into battle with the Benjaminites?"God said, "Judah goes first."
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19The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
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19The People of Israel got up the next morning and camped before Gibeah.
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20The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
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20The army of Israel marched out against Benjamin and took up their positions, ready to attack Gibeah.
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21The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground.
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21But the Benjaminites poured out of Gibeah and devastated twenty-two Israelite divisions on the ground.
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22The 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.
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22The Israelites went back to the sanctuary and wept before God until evening. They again inquired of God, "Shall we again go into battle against the Benjaminites, our brothers?"God said, "Yes. Attack."
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23The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; 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.”
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23The army took heart. The men of Israel took up the positions they had deployed on the first day.
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24The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
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24On the second day, the Israelites again advanced against Benjamin.
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25Benjamin went out 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.
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25This time as the Benjaminites came out of the city, on this second day, they devastated another eighteen Israelite divisions, all swordsmen.
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26Then 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 evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
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26All the People of Israel, the whole army, were back at Bethel, weeping, sitting there in the presence of God. That day they fasted until evening. They sacrificed Whole-Burnt-Offerings and Peace-Offerings before God.
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27The children of Israel asked Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
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27And they again inquired of God. The Chest of God's Covenant was there at that time with
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28and 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.”
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28Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, as the ministering priest. They asked, "Shall we again march into battle against the Benjaminites, our brothers? Or should we call it quits?"And God said, "Attack. Tomorrow I'll give you victory."
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29Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
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29This time Israel placed men in ambush all around Gibeah.
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30The 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.
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30On the third day when Israel set out, they took up the same positions before the Benjaminites as before.
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31The 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.
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31When the Benjaminites came out to meet the army, they moved out from the city. Benjaminites began to cut down some of the troops just as they had before. About thirty men fell in the field and on the roads to Bethel and Gibeah.
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32The 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.”
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32The Benjaminites started bragging, "We're dropping them like flies, just as before!"
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33All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar. Then the ambushers of Israel broke out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
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33But the Israelites strategized: "Now let's retreat and pull them out of the city onto the main roads." So every Israelite moved farther out to Baal Tamar; at the same time the Israelite ambush rushed from its place west of Gibeah.
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34Ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel came over against Gibeah, and the battle was severe; but they didn’t know that disaster was close to them.
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34Ten crack divisions from all over Israel now arrived at Gibeah—intense, bloody fighting! The Benjaminites had no idea that they were about to go down in defeat—
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35Yahweh 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.
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35God routed them before Israel. The Israelites decimated twenty-five divisions of Benjamin that day—25,100 killed. They were all swordsmen.
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36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel yielded to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.
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36The Benjaminites saw that they were beaten.The men of Israel acted like they were retreating before Benjamin, knowing that they could depend on the ambush they had prepared for Gibeah.
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37The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
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37The ambush erupted and made quick work of Gibeah. The ambush spread out and massacred the city.
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38Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
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38The strategy for the main body of the ambush was that they send up a smoke signal from the city.
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39The 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.”
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39Then the men of Israel would turn in battle. When that happened, Benjamin had killed about thirty Israelites and thought they were on their way to victory, yelling out, "They're on the run, just as in the first battle!"
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40But 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 city went up in smoke to the sky.
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40But then the signal went up from the city—a huge column of smoke. When the Benjaminites looked back, there it was, the whole city going up in smoke.
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41The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them.
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41By the time the men of Israel had turned back on them, the men of Benjamin fell apart—they could see that they were trapped.
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42Therefore 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 middle of it.
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42Confronted by the Israelites, they tried to get away down the wilderness road, but by now the battle was everywhere. The men of Israel poured out of the towns, killing them right and left,
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43They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise.
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43hot on their trail, picking them off east of Gibeah.
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44Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor.
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44Eighteen divisions of Benjaminites were wiped out, all their best fighters.
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45They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; and they gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them.
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45Five divisions turned to escape to the wilderness, to Rimmon Rock, but the Israelites caught and slaughtered them on roads.Keeping the pressure on, the Israelites brought down two more divisions.
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46So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valor.
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46The total of the Benjaminites killed that day came to twenty-five divisions of infantry, their best swordsmen.
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47But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.
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47Six hundred men got away. They made it to Rimmon Rock in the wilderness and held out there for four months.
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48The 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 livestock, and all that they found. Moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.
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48The men of Israel came back and killed all the Benjaminites who were left, all the men and animals they found in every town, and then torched the towns, sending them up in flames.