Judges 21:20
So they commanded the Benjaminites,“Go hide in the vineyards,
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- Judg 21:21-233 verses86%
21 and keep your eyes open. When you see the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration, jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin.
22 When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”
23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. They went home to their own territory, rebuilt their cities, and settled down.
- Judg 20:12-154 verses77%
12 The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying,“How could such a wicked thing take place?
13 Now, hand over the good-for-nothings in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.” But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.
14 The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.
15 That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.
- Judg 20:29-3911 verses77%
29 So Israel hid men in ambush outside Gibeah.
30 The Israelites attacked the Benjaminites the next day; they took their positions against Gibeah just as they had done before.
31 The Benjaminites attacked the army, leaving the city unguarded. They began to strike down their enemy just as they had done before. On the main roads(one leads to Bethel, the other to Gibeah) and in the field, they struck down about thirty Israelites.
32 Then the Benjaminites said,“They are defeated just as before.” But the Israelites said,“Let’s retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads.”
33 All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah.
34 Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah– the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep.
35 The LORD annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.
36 Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.
37 The men hiding in ambush made a mad dash to Gibeah. They attacked and put the sword to the entire city.
38 The Israelites and the men hiding in ambush had arranged a signal. When the men hiding in ambush sent up a smoke signal from the city,
39 the Israelites counterattacked. Benjamin had begun to strike down the Israelites; they struck down about thirty men. They said,“There’s no doubt about it! They are totally defeated as in the earlier battle.”
- Judg 21:12-198 verses74%
12 They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins who had never been intimate with a man in bed. They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
13 The entire assembly sent messengers to the Benjaminites at the cliff of Rimmon and assured them they would not be harmed.
14 The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.
15 The people regretted what had happened to Benjamin because the LORD had weakened the Israelite tribes.
16 The leaders of the assembly said,“How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, the Benjaminite women have been wiped out.
17 The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.
18 But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying,‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’
19 However, there is an annual festival to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel(east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem) and south of Lebonah.”
- Judg 20:18-214 verses74%
18 The Israelites went up to Bethel and asked God,“Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?” The LORD said,“Judah should lead.”
19 The Israelites got up the next morning and moved against Gibeah.
20 The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.
21 The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.
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3 The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said,“Explain how this wicked thing happened!”
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1 600 Brides for 600 Brothers The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying,“Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”
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32 Now, come up at night with your men and set an ambush in the field outside the city.
- Judg 20:23-253 verses71%
23 The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening. They asked the LORD,“Should we again march out to fight the Benjaminites, our brothers?” The LORD said,“Attack them!”
24 So the Israelites marched toward the Benjaminites the next day.
25 The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers.
- Judg 21:6-72 verses70%
6 The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said,“Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!
7 How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the LORD’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”
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45 The rest turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites caught five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.
- Judg 20:41-433 verses70%
41 When the Israelites turned around, the Benjaminites panicked because they could see that disaster was on their doorstep.
42 They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down.
43 They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, and annihilated them all the way to a spot east of Geba.
- Judg 20:9-102 verses70%
9 Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will attack the city as the lot dictates.
10 We will take ten of every group of a hundred men from all the tribes of Israel(and a hundred of every group of a thousand, and a thousand of every group of ten thousand) to get supplies for the army. When they arrive in Gibeah of Benjamin they will punish them for the atrocity which they committed in Israel.”
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25 The Benjaminites formed their ranks behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill.
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21 These cities belonged to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans: Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
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16 Some from Benjamin and Judah also came to David’s stronghold.
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5 The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.
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20 Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen by lot.
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14 So they traveled on, and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.