The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[phil36]

[h=1]Judges 20:2New International Version (NIV)[/h][FONT=&quot]2 The leaders of all the people of the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, four hundred thousand men armed with swords.[/FONT]

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 20:3 (NASB)
[SUP]3 [/SUP] (Now the sons of Benjamin heard that the sons of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the sons of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this wickedness take place?"

 

[phil36]

[h=1]Judges 20:4New International Version (NIV)[/h][FONT=&quot]4 So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, said, “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.

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[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 20:5 (KJV)
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.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:6 “Then I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the land of the inheritance of Yisra’ĕl, because they committed wickedness and folly in Yisra’ĕl"

 

[mario1001]

Judges 20:7 Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here.”

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 20:8 (NASB)
[SUP]8 [/SUP] 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.

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 20:9
New International Version (NIV)

But now this is what we’ll do to Gibeah: We’ll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots.

 

[phil36]

[h=1]Judges 20:10New International Version (NIV)[/h][FONT=&quot]10 We’ll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for this outrageous act done in Israel.”[/FONT]

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 20:11 (NASB)
[SUP]11 [/SUP] Thus all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united as one man.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 20:12
King James Version(KJV)

12.)And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 20:13
New International Version (NIV)

Now turn those wicked men of Gibeah over to us so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel.”


But the Benjamites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 20:14 (KJV)
But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 20:15 (NASB)
[SUP]15 [/SUP] 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.

 

[phil36]

[h=1]Judges 20:16English Standard Version (ESV)[/h][FONT=&quot]16 Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.[/FONT]

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 20:17
King James Version(KJV)

17.)And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:18 And the children of Yisra’ĕl rose and went up to Bĕyth Yl to ask of Yah, and they said, “Who of us go up first to battle against the children of Binyamin?” And יהוה said, “Yehuḏah first.”

 

[Ariel82]

So the children of Israel rose in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 20:20 (KJV)
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.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:21 And the children of Binyamin came out of Giḇ‛ah, and on that day cut down to the ground twenty-two thousand men of the Yisra’ĕlites.