Judges 20:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Israel set ambushers round about Gibeah.

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  • Josh 8:4 : 4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city; do not go very far from the city, but be all ready.
  • Judg 20:34 : 34 And 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.
  • 2 Sam 5:23 : 23 And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, You shall not go up, but circle around behind them and come upon them opposite the mulberry trees.

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  • Judg 20:30-39
    10 verses
    84%

    30 And 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.

    31 And 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.

    32 And 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.

    33 And 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.

    34 And 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.

    35 And 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.

    36 So 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.

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

    38 Now 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.

    39 And 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 20:17-25
    9 verses
    78%

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

    18 And 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.

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

    20 And 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.

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

    22 And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they had arrayed themselves the first day.

    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.)

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

    25 And 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 20:9-15
    7 verses
    77%

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

    10 And 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.

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

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

    13 Now 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.

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

    15 And 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 21:20
    76%

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

  • Hos 10:9
    74%

    9 O 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 9:32
    73%

    32 Now therefore arise by night, you and the people with you, and lie in wait in the field.

  • Josh 8:12-14
    3 verses
    71%

    12 And he took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

    13 And when they had set the people, even all the army that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

    14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he did not know that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

  • Judg 20:41-43
    3 verses
    70%

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

    42 Therefore 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.

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

  • Judg 20:3
    70%

    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?

  • 1 Sam 17:21
    70%

    21 Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

  • Judg 20:28
    69%

    28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.

  • Judg 9:25
    69%

    25 And the men of Shechem set ambushes against him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way; and it was told to Abimelech.

  • 2 Sam 17:26
    69%

    26 So Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

  • Judg 20:5
    69%

    5 And 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.

  • 2 Chr 13:13
    68%

    13 But Jeroboam set an ambush to come around behind them: so they were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

  • 2 Chr 20:22
    68%

    22 Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.

  • Josh 8:4
    68%

    4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city; do not go very far from the city, but be all ready.

  • Josh 8:9
    68%

    9 Joshua therefore sent them forth, and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

  • Judg 9:34
    68%

    34 And Abimelech rose up, and all the people with him, by night, and they lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

  • 1 Sam 29:1
    67%

    1 Now the Philistines gathered all their armies at Aphek, and the Israelites camped by a fountain in Jezreel.

  • Josh 10:5
    67%

    5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites—the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon—gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped before Gibeon and made war against it.

  • Isa 10:29
    67%

    29 They have gone over the pass: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul has fled.

  • 1 Kgs 20:27
    67%

    27 And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of goats; but the Syrians filled the country.