Judges 20:29

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Then Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

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  • Josh 8:4 : 4 He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you are to lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go far from the city, but all of you stay ready."
  • Judg 20:34 : 34 Ten 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.
  • 2 Sam 5:23 : 23 When David inquired of the LORD, He said, "Do not go straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.

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  • Judg 20:30-39
    10 verses
    84%

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

    31 The 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.

    32 The 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."

    33 All 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.

    34 Ten 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.

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

    36 Then 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.

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

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

    39 When 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.'

  • Judg 20:17-25
    9 verses
    78%

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

    18 The 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."

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

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

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

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

    23 The 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."

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

    25 On 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 20:9-15
    7 verses
    77%

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

    10 We 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.

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

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

    13 Now 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.

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

    15 On 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 21:20
    76%

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

  • Hos 10:9
    74%

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

  • Judg 9:32
    73%

    32 Now then, during the night you and your men should come and lie in wait in the fields.

  • Josh 8:12-14
    3 verses
    71%

    12 He took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, west of the city.

    13 The people positioned all the camp to the north of the city, while a rear guard was placed to the west of the city. That night, Joshua went into the valley.

    14 When the king of Ai saw this, he and all his men of the city hurried and rose early, going out to meet Israel in battle at the appointed place near the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush was set against him behind the city.

  • Judg 20:41-43
    3 verses
    70%

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

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

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

  • Judg 20:3
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 17:21
    70%

    21 Israel and the Philistines were drawing up their lines, facing each other.

  • Judg 20:28
    69%

    28 and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was ministering before it. They asked, "Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjaminites, our brothers, or shall we stop?" The LORD answered, "Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands."

  • Judg 9:25
    69%

    25 The leaders of Shechem set up ambushes on the mountaintops, and they robbed everyone who passed by them on the road. This was reported to Abimelech.

  • 2 Sam 17:26
    69%

    26 Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

  • Judg 20:5
    69%

    5 While we were there, the men of Gibeah attacked me. They surrounded the house during the night and intended to kill me. They raped my concubine, and she died.

  • 2 Chr 13:13
    68%

    13 But Jeroboam deployed an ambush to come from behind them, so Judah was in front and the ambushers were behind them.

  • 2 Chr 20:22
    68%

    22 As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set ambushes against the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.

  • Josh 8:4
    68%

    4 He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you are to lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go far from the city, but all of you stay ready."

  • Josh 8:9
    68%

    9 So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the ambush site, remaining between Bethel and Ai, west of Ai. Joshua spent that night among the people.

  • Judg 9:34
    68%

    34 So Abimelech and all his troops got up by night and set an ambush near Shechem in four companies.

  • 1 Sam 29:1
    67%

    1 The Philistines gathered all their armies at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.

  • Josh 10:5
    67%

    5 Then the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces, and they and their armies moved out, camped near Gibeon, and prepared to attack it.

  • Isa 10:29
    67%

    29 They have crossed the pass; at Geba, they make camp. Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees.

  • 1 Kgs 20:27
    67%

    27 The Israelites were also mustered and supplied with provisions. They went out to meet the Arameans and camped opposite them, appearing like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.

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