Then 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 the LORD at Mizpah. Jdg 11:111Sa 10:171Sa 3:202Sa 3:10Jdg 21:5Jos 22:121Sa 7:5-62Sa 24:2 The 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. Jdg 8:102Ki 3:26Jdg 20:15Jdg 20:172Sa 24:9 (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?” Jdg 19:22-27Luk 12:58-59Luk 14:31-32Mat 5:25Pro 22:3
The 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. Jdg 19:15-28 The 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. Jdg 19:22Jdg 19:25-26Gen 19:4-8Deu 22:24Ezk 22:10-11 I 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. Jdg 19:29Jdg 19:23Jos 7:15Gen 34:7Jdg 20:102Sa 13:12-13 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.” Jdg 19:301Co 5:10-121Co 5:11Co 5:6Deu 14:1-2Deu 4:6Exo 19:5-6Jas 1:5
All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house. Ecc 9:10Jdg 20:1Pro 21:3Jdg 20:11Jdg 21:1Jdg 21:5 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot; 1Ch 24:51Sa 14:41-42Act 1:26Jon 1:7Jos 14:2Neh 11:1Pro 16:33 and 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 the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.” So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What wickedness is this that has happened among you? Deu 13:14Jos 22:13-16Deu 20:10Mat 18:15-18Rom 12:18 Now therefore deliver up the men, the wicked fellows who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and put away evil from Israel.” Deu 17:12Deu 13:13Jdg 19:221Ki 21:131Sa 2:251Sa 30:222Ch 13:72Ch 25:16
But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel. The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel. Num 20:202Ch 13:13Job 15:25-26Num 21:23 The children of Benjamin were counted on that day out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, in addition to the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred chosen men. Num 26:41Num 1:37Jdg 20:25Jdg 20:35Jdg 20:46-47 Among 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. Jdg 3:151Ch 12:21Sa 17:401Sa 17:49-501Sa 25:292Ch 26:14 The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were counted four hundred thousand men who drew sword. All these were men of war. 1Ch 21:51Sa 11:81Sa 15:42Ch 17:14-18Jdg 20:2Num 1:46Num 26:51
The 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?” Jdg 20:23Jdg 20:26-27Num 27:21Gen 49:8-10Num 27:5Jdg 1:1-2Jdg 18:31Jdg 19:18
The LORD said, “Judah first.”
The children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah. Jos 3:1Jos 6:12Jos 7:16 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah. The children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and on that day destroyed twenty-two thousand of the Israelite men down to the ground. Hos 10:9Jdg 20:25Jer 12:12Ch 28:10Deu 23:9Ecc 9:1-3Gen 49:27Psa 33:16 The 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. 1Sa 30:62Sa 11:25Jdg 20:15Jdg 20:17Psa 64:5 The children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening; and they asked of the LORD, saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?” Jdg 20:26-27Hos 5:15Jos 7:6Psa 78:34-36Jdg 20:18
The LORD said, “Go up against him.”
The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day. Benjamin 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. Jdg 20:21Rom 11:33Gen 18:25Job 9:12-13Psa 97:2Rom 2:5Rom 3:5
Then all the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. Jdg 20:23Jol 2:12-18Ezr 8:21Ezr 9:4-5Jdg 20:181Sa 7:62Ch 20:3Jol 1:14 The children of Israel asked the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days, 1Sa 4:3-4Jos 18:1Jdg 20:18Isa 59:1Jdg 20:23Jer 7:12Num 27:21Psa 78:60-61 and 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?” Jdg 7:9Deu 18:5Jos 24:33Deu 10:81Sa 14:371Sa 23:4-121Sa 30:82Ch 20:17
The LORD said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.”
Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah. Jos 8:42Sa 5:23Jdg 20:34 The 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. The 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. Jos 8:14-16Isa 10:29Jdg 19:13-14Jos 7:5
The children of Benjamin said, “They are struck down before us, as at the first.” But the children of Israel said, “Let’s flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.” Jos 8:15-16
All 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. Jos 8:18-22 Ten 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. Isa 47:11Jos 8:14Job 21:131Th 5:3Ecc 8:11-12Ecc 9:12Isa 3:10-11Luk 21:34 The LORD 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. Job 20:5Jdg 20:15Jdg 20:44-46 So 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. Jos 8:15-29 The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; then the ambushers spread out, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword. Jos 8:19Exo 19:13Jos 6:5 Now 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. 2Ki 4:16Gen 17:21Jos 8:20 The 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.” Jdg 20:32 But 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. Jos 8:20Jol 2:30Rev 19:3Gen 19:28Sng 3:6 The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that disaster had come on them. 1Th 5:32Pe 2:12Luk 17:27-28Luk 21:26Exo 15:9-10Isa 13:8-9Isa 33:14Rev 18:8-10 Therefore 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. Jos 8:24Hos 10:9Hos 9:9Jos 8:15Lam 1:3 They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, and trod them down at their resting place, as far as near Gibeah toward the sunrise. Jos 8:20-22 Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these were men of valor. They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. They gleaned five thousand men of them in the highways, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck two thousand men of them. Jos 15:32Jdg 21:131Ch 6:77Zec 14:10 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword. All these were men of valor. Jdg 20:15Jdg 20:35 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months. Jer 14:7Hab 3:2Isa 1:9Jdg 21:13Lam 3:32Psa 103:9-10 The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword—including the entire city, the livestock, and all that they found. Moreover they set all the cities which they found on fire. Deu 13:15-172Ch 25:132Ch 28:6-9Pro 18:19