Judges 20:9

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

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  • Josh 14:2 : 2 Their inheritance was assigned by lot, as the LORD had commanded through Moses, for the nine and a half tribes.
  • 1 Sam 14:41-42 : 41 Then Saul prayed to the Lord, the God of Israel: 'Give a perfect lot.' Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, and the people were cleared. 42 Saul said, 'Cast the lot between me and Jonathan my son.' And Jonathan was taken.
  • 1 Chr 24:5 : 5 They divided them by casting lots, the same for both groups, for there were officials of the sanctuary and officials of God among both the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.
  • Neh 11:1 : 1 The leaders of the people stayed in Jerusalem, but the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of every ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the remaining nine stayed in the towns.
  • Prov 16:33 : 33 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord.
  • Jonah 1:7 : 7 And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity that has come upon us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
  • Acts 1:26 : 26 Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.

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  • Judg 20:10-15
    6 verses
    86%

    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 20:8
    81%

    8 All the people stood together as one and said, "None of us will go to his tent or turn back to his house.

  • Judg 20:17-21
    5 verses
    77%

    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.

  • Judg 20:28-39
    12 verses
    75%

    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."

    29 Then Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

    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 20:3
    74%

    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?"

  • Judg 19:12-16
    5 verses
    73%

    12 But his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into a city of foreigners, who are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”

    13 He said to his servant, "Come, let us approach one of these places and spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah."

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

    15 They turned aside there to go in and spend the night in Gibeah. When they went in, they sat in the town square, but no one took them into their house to spend the night.

    16 In the evening, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim and was staying temporarily in Gibeah, though the people of the place were Benjaminites.

  • Judg 20:25
    72%

    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.

  • Josh 18:11
    72%

    11 The lot of the tribe of Benjamin, according to their clans, came up. The territory allotted to their lot lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph.

  • Judg 20:23
    71%

    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."

  • Josh 8:5
    71%

    5 "I and all the people with me will approach the city, and when they come out to meet us as they did before, we will flee before them."

  • 2 Sam 17:12
    71%

    12 'We will come upon him wherever he is found, and we will fall on him like dew settling on the ground. Not even one of his men will survive.'

  • 1 Sam 11:10
    70%

    10 The men of Jabesh then said, "Tomorrow we will surrender to you, and you can do to us whatever seems good to you."

  • Judg 1:3
    70%

    3 Then Judah said to his brother Simeon, "Come with me into my allotted territory, and let us fight the Canaanites together. I will also go with you into your territory." So Simeon went with him.

  • Josh 18:6
    70%

    6 Write a description of the land in seven divisions and bring it to me here. I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.

  • 1 Sam 14:10
    70%

    10 But if they say, 'Come up to us,' we will go up, for the Lord has handed them over to us. That will be our sign.

  • Judg 20:5
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    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.

  • Judg 9:32
    70%

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

  • 1 Sam 6:9
    70%

    9 Watch to see: if it goes up along the road to its own territory, toward Beth Shemesh, then it is the LORD who has brought this great disaster upon us. But if it does not, then we will know it was not his hand that struck us; it happened by chance.

  • Gen 19:13
    70%

    13 because we are about to destroy this place. The outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it."

  • Josh 10:4
    70%

    4 “Come up to me and help me; let us attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and the people of Israel.”

  • Hos 10:9
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    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?

  • Gen 19:9
    69%

    9 They replied, "Get out of the way! This man came here as a foreigner, and now he wants to act as a judge! We’ll treat you worse than them." They pressed hard against Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

  • 1 Sam 8:20
    69%

    20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us, govern us, and fight our battles.

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    69%

    20 Then Samuel brought forward all the tribes of Israel, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken by lot.

  • Judg 20:43
    69%

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

  • Prov 1:14
    69%

    14 Cast your lot among us; we will all have one purse.