Judges 19:30

World English Bible (2000)

It was so, that all who saw it said, "There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day! Consider it, take counsel, and speak."

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 20:7 : 7 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel."
  • Prov 13:10 : 10 Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.
  • Prov 15:22 : 22 Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
  • Prov 20:18 : 18 Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!
  • Prov 24:6 : 6 for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.
  • Hos 9:9 : 9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
  • Prov 11:14 : 14 Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 19:22-29
    8 verses
    84%

    22 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may have sex with him!"

    23 The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, "No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; since this man is come into my house, don't do this folly.

    24 Behold, here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. I will bring them out now. Humble them, and do with them what seems good to you; but to this man don't do any such folly."

    25 But the men wouldn't listen to him: so the man laid hold of his concubine, and brought her out to them; and they had sex with her, and abused her all night until the morning: and when the day began to dawn, they let her go.

    26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until it was light.

    27 Her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the doors of the house, and went out to go his way; and behold, the woman his concubine was fallen down at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

    28 He said to her, "Get up, and let us be going!" but no one answered. Then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and went to his place.

    29 When he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.

  • Judg 20:3-10
    8 verses
    79%

    3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?"

    4 The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, "I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

    5 The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They thought to have slain me, and they forced my concubine, and she is dead.

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

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

    8 All the people arose as one man, saying, "We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.

    9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: [we will go up] against it by lot;

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

  • Judg 20:12-13
    2 verses
    73%

    12 The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What wickedness is this that is happen among you?

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

  • Judg 19:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

    2 His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.

  • Judg 19:9-11
    3 verses
    71%

    9 When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home."

    10 But the man wouldn't stay that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): and there were with him a couple of donkeys saddled; his concubine also was with him.

    11 When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, "Please come and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it."

  • Deut 13:11
    70%

    11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

  • Deut 17:4
    69%

    4 and it be told you, and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire diligently; and behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in Israel,

  • Judg 6:29
    68%

    29 They said one to another, "Who has done this thing?" When they inquired and asked, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing."

  • Judg 20:31
    68%

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

  • Judg 18:14
    68%

    14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do."

  • Deut 19:19-20
    2 verses
    67%

    19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

    20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

  • 2 Sam 16:21-22
    2 verses
    67%

    21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will be strong."

    22 So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.

  • Ezek 23:10
    67%

    10 These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they killed with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments on her.

  • Jer 18:13
    66%

    13 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

  • Judg 19:14-16
    3 verses
    66%

    14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

    15 They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.

    16 Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening: now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

  • Judg 21:11
    66%

    11 This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has lain with a man."

  • Deut 13:14
    66%

    14 then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,

  • Judg 21:25
    66%

    25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

  • Judg 11:36
    66%

    36 She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon."

  • Josh 10:37
    66%

    37 They took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were in it.

  • Judg 17:6
    66%

    6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

  • Judg 21:6
    66%

    6 The children of Israel grieved for Benjamin their brother, and said, "There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.