Judges 21:20

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

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  • Judg 21:21-23
    3 verses
    86%

    21 'Watch, and when the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dances, rush out from the vineyards and each of you seize a wife for yourself from the daughters of Shiloh. Then return to the land of Benjamin.'

    22 'When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will say to them, "Do us a favor by allowing them to have these wives, for we did not obtain wives for them during the battle. And you did not give your daughters to them, so you are not guilty of breaking your oath."'

    23 So the Benjaminites did as instructed. They took wives according to their number from the dancers they had seized. Then they went back to their inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.

  • Judg 20:12-15
    4 verses
    77%

    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 20:29-39
    11 verses
    77%

    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 21:12-19
    8 verses
    74%

    12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead four hundred young women who were virgins and had not been intimate with a man. They brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

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

    14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave them the women they had spared from Jabesh-Gilead, but there were not enough for all of them.

    15 The people of Israel grieved for Benjamin because the LORD had created a gap in the tribes of Israel.

    16 The elders of the assembly said, 'What shall we do for wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?'

    17 They said, 'The inheritance of the survivors of Benjamin must be preserved, so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel.'

    18 'But we cannot give them wives from our own daughters, for we have sworn with a curse that anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin will be cursed.'

    19 Then they said, 'There is a yearly festival to the LORD in Shiloh, which lies north of Bethel, east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.'

  • Judg 20:18-21
    4 verses
    74%

    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 20:3
    73%

    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 21:1
    72%

    1 The men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, saying, 'None of us will give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.'

  • Judg 9:32
    71%

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

  • Judg 20:23-25
    3 verses
    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."

    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 21:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6 The Israelites grieved for Benjamin, their brother, and said, 'Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.'

    7 'What can we do for the survivors to provide wives, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters?'

  • Judg 20:45
    70%

    45 The 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.

  • 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 20:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • 2 Sam 2:25
    69%

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

  • Josh 18:21
    68%

    21 The cities of the tribe of Benjamin, according to their families, were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz.

  • 1 Chr 12:16
    68%

    16 These 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 20:5
    68%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    68%

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

  • Judg 19:14
    68%

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