Judges 20:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

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  • Deut 13:14 : 14 Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it is true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done among you;
  • Deut 20:10 : 10 When you come near a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace to it.
  • Josh 22:13-16 : 13 And the children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, 14 And with him ten leaders, one chief leader from each house throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel. 15 And they came to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and spoke with them, saying, 16 Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD: What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel this day against the LORD?
  • Matt 18:15-18 : 15 Moreover if your brother trespasses against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone: if he hears you, you have gained your brother. 16 But if he will not hear you, then take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. 17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church: but if he refuses to hear the church, let him be to you as a heathen and a tax collector. 18 Truly I say to you, Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
  • Rom 12:18 : 18 If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.

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  • Judg 20:3-11
    9 verses
    89%

    3(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpeh.) Then the children of Israel said, Tell us, how did this wickedness occur?

    4And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

    5And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night, and thought to have killed me; and my concubine they forced, that she is dead.

    6And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

    7Behold, you are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.

    8And all the people arose as one, saying, None of us will go to his tent, nor will any of us turn into his house.

    9But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up by lot against it;

    10And we will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to bring food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly they have committed in Israel.

    11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united as one.

  • Judg 20:13-15
    3 verses
    88%

    13Now therefore deliver up the men, the worthless fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and remove evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not listen to their brothers, the children of Israel.

    14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

    15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty-six thousand men who drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  • Judg 20:17-21
    5 verses
    81%

    17And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword; all these were men of war.

    18And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Who shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.

    19And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.

    20And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel set themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

    21And the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty-two thousand men.

  • Judg 20:29-39
    11 verses
    80%

    29And Israel set ambushers round about Gibeah.

    30And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

    31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

    32And the children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city to the highways.

    33And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar; and the ambushers of Israel came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.

    34And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was heavy; but they did not know that disaster was near them.

    35And the LORD struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men; all these drew the sword.

    36So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave way to the Benjamites, because they trusted to the ambushers which they had set beside Gibeah.

    37And the ambushers hastened, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the ambushers drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

    38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, 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.

  • Judg 21:5-6
    2 verses
    79%

    5And the children of Israel said, Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come up with the congregation to the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD at Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

    6And the children of Israel felt sorry for Benjamin their brother, and said, Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.

  • Judg 20:23-25
    3 verses
    78%

    23(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)

    24And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

    25And Benjamin went forth 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.

  • Judg 20:41-43
    3 verses
    78%

    41And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed, for they saw that disaster had come upon them.

    42Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel toward the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them, and those who came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.

    43Thus they enclosed the Benjamites round about, and chased them, and trampled them down easily against Gibeah toward the sunrise.

  • Judg 21:15-17
    3 verses
    77%

    15And the people felt sorry for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

    16Then the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

    17And they said, There must be an inheritance for those who escaped from Benjamin, that a tribe not be destroyed out of Israel.

  • 1 Sam 10:20
    76%

    20And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

  • Judg 21:13
    75%

    13And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably to them.

  • Judg 20:48
    75%

    48And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the men of every city, and the beasts, and all that came to hand; also they set on fire all the cities they came to.

  • Judg 21:20-22
    3 verses
    75%

    20Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

    21And watch, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man seize his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be kind to them for our sakes, because we did not reserve each man his wife in the war; for you did not give them to them at this time, so you would not be guilty.

  • Hos 10:9
    74%

    9O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

  • Judg 19:30
    73%

    30And so it was that all who saw it said, "Such a deed has not been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up from the land of Egypt until this day. Consider it, take counsel, and speak your minds."

  • Judg 19:16
    73%

    16And behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening, who was also from Mount Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

  • Judg 21:1
    73%

    1Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.

  • Josh 22:15
    72%

    15And they came to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and spoke with them, saying,