Judges 20:14

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Instead, the Benjaminites gathered from their cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the Israelites.

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  • Num 20:20 : 20 But Edom insisted, "You may not pass through." And Edom came out against them with a large, strong force.
  • Num 21:23 : 23 But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his people and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness; he came to Jahaz and fought with Israel.
  • 2 Chr 13:13 : 13 But Jeroboam deployed an ambush to come from behind them, so Judah was in front and the ambushers were behind them.
  • Job 15:25-26 : 25 For he has stretched out his hand against God and boasts arrogantly against the Almighty. 26 He rushes against Him defiantly, with a sturdy shield for the thickness of his defense.

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  • Judg 20:17-25
    9 verses
    90%

    17The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mustered four hundred thousand soldiers armed with swords, all experienced warriors.

    18The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said, "Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjaminites?" The LORD replied, "Judah shall go first."

    19The next morning the Israelites got up and camped near Gibeah.

    20The Israelites went out to fight the Benjaminites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.

    21The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.

    22But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.

    23The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They asked, "Shall we go up again to wage war against the Benjaminites, our brothers?" The LORD answered, "Go up against them."

    24Then the Israelites approached the Benjaminites on the second day.

    25On the second day, the Benjaminites came out from Gibeah to meet the Israelites and struck down another eighteen thousand Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

  • Judg 20:15
    87%

    15On that day, the Benjaminites mustered twenty-six thousand men armed with swords from their towns, not counting the seven hundred elite troops from Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:9-13
    5 verses
    85%

    9This is what we will do to Gibeah: We will decide by casting lots.

    10We will take ten men out of every hundred, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand across all the tribes of Israel. They will gather provisions for the army, so we can act against Gibeah in Benjamin for their disgraceful act in Israel.

    11So all the men of Israel were united together as one man against the city.

    12The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What is this awful crime that has been committed among you?"

    13Now hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so that we may put them to death and purge the evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites would not listen to their fellow Israelites.

  • Judg 20:29-46
    18 verses
    85%

    29Then Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

    30On the third day, the Israelites went up against the Benjaminites and took up their positions against Gibeah, as they had done before.

    31The Benjaminites came out to meet them and were drawn away from the city. They began to inflict casualties on the Israelites as they had done before—about thirty men—in the open country, on the roads leading to Bethel and Gibeah.

    32The Benjaminites thought, "We are defeating them as before." But the Israelites said, "Let us retreat and draw them away from the city to the roads."

    33All the men of Israel rose up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelite ambush broke out of its place west of Gibeah.

    34Ten thousand of Israel's finest men advanced against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was closing in on them.

    35The LORD struck down Benjamin before Israel, and the Israelites killed twenty-five thousand one hundred Benjaminites that day, all armed with swords.

    36Then the Benjaminites saw that they were defeated. The Israelites had given ground to the Benjaminites because they relied on the ambush they had set near Gibeah.

    37The men in ambush hurried and rushed upon Gibeah. They spread out and struck the entire city with the sword.

    38The appointed signal between the men of Israel and the ambush was to send up a great column of smoke from the city.

    39When the Israelites turned in the battle, the Benjaminites had begun killing about thirty Israelites and thought, 'We are defeating them as in the first battle.'

    40But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjaminites turned back and saw the entire city going up in smoke toward the sky.

    41Then the Israelites turned on them, and the Benjaminites were terrified because they saw that disaster had overtaken them.

    42They fled before the Israelites toward the wilderness, but they were overtaken, and those who came out of the cities destroyed them.

    43They surrounded the Benjaminites, pursued them, and overran them until they were opposite Gibeah on the east side.

    44Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all valiant warriors.

    45The rest turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, but the Israelites killed five thousand of them along the roads. They pursued them as far as Gidom and struck down another two thousand.

    46That day, twenty-five thousand sword-wielding men of Benjamin fell, all of them valiant warriors.

  • Judg 20:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1Then all the Israelites went out, and the entire assembly came together as one man, from Dan to Beersheba and the land of Gilead, to the LORD at Mizpah.

    2The leaders of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, took their positions in the assembly of the people of God—four hundred thousand soldiers armed with swords.

    3The people of Benjamin heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. The Israelites said, "Tell us, how did this terrible crime happen?"

  • Num 1:36-37
    2 verses
    78%

    36The descendants of Benjamin were recorded by their generations, by their families, and by their ancestral houses, counting the names of all the males twenty years old or older, all able to serve in the army.

    37The number from the tribe of Benjamin was 35,400.

  • Josh 22:12
    77%

    12When the Israelites heard this, the whole assembly gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.

  • Judg 21:20
    77%

    20So they instructed the Benjaminites, 'Go and hide in the vineyards.'

  • Judg 21:13
    76%

    13Then the whole assembly sent a message to the Benjaminites at the rock of Rimmon, and they offered them peace.

  • 2 Sam 2:25
    76%

    25The men of Benjamin rallied to Abner, formed a single group, and took their stand on the top of a hill.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    76%

    16These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing its banks. They drove out all the people living in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

  • Judg 20:48
    76%

    48The men of Israel went back to Benjamin and put the cities to the sword, including the people, livestock, and everything they found. They also set fire to all the cities they came upon.

  • Judg 10:17
    75%

    17The Ammonites were called together and encamped in Gilead, while the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

  • Hos 10:9
    75%

    9From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, Israel, and there they have remained. Will not war overtake them in Gibeah because of their wickedness?

  • Neh 11:31
    75%

    31The descendants of Benjamin lived in Geba, Michmash, Aija, Bethel, and its surrounding villages.

  • Num 2:22
    74%

    22Then the tribe of Benjamin. The leader of the descendants of Benjamin is Abidan son of Gideoni.

  • Josh 21:17
    74%

    17From the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,

  • Judg 19:14
    74%

    14So they passed on and continued their journey. The sun set as they came near Gibeah, which belongs to the tribe of Benjamin.