Judges 20:8

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Judg 20:1 : 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
  • Judg 20:11 : 11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
  • Judg 21:1 : 1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife."
  • Judg 21:5 : 5 The children of Israel said, "Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh?" For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."
  • Prov 21:3 : 3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

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  • Judg 20:9-14
    6 verses
    81%

    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."

    11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

    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.

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

  • Judg 20:1-3
    3 verses
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    1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.

    2 The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.

    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?"

  • Num 32:18
    75%

    18 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

  • Judg 20:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18 The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, "Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?" Yahweh said, "Judah [shall go up] first."

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

    20 The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.

  • Judg 20:7
    74%

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

  • 2 Chr 10:16
    72%

    16 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse! Every man to your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So all Israel departed to their tents.

  • Exod 19:8
    72%

    8 All the people answered together, and said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do." Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.

  • Judg 21:8
    72%

    8 They said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah?" Behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.

  • Judg 21:5
    72%

    5 The children of Israel said, "Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh?" For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."

  • 1 Kgs 12:16
    71%

    16 When all Israel saw that the king didn't listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What portion have we in David? Neither do we have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David." So Israel departed to their tents.

  • 1 Sam 8:20
    71%

    20 that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."

  • 1 Sam 14:9
    71%

    9 If they say thus to us, 'Wait until we come to you!' then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

  • Judg 19:15
    71%

    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.

  • Judg 19:12-13
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    70%

    12 His master said to him, "We won't turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah."

    13 He said to his servant, "Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah."

  • Josh 8:5
    70%

    5 I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

  • 2 Sam 17:12
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    12 So shall we come on him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light on him as the dew falls on the ground; and of him and of all the men who are with him we will not leave so much as one.

  • 1 Chr 13:4
    70%

    4 All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

  • 2 Sam 18:3
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    3 But the people said, "You shall not go forth; for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city."

  • Judg 21:24
    70%

    24 The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.

  • Josh 24:16
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    16 The people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

  • Judg 21:1
    70%

    1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, "There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife."

  • Neh 8:1
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    1 All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.

  • 2 Sam 19:8
    70%

    8 Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. They told to all the people, saying, "Behold, the king is sitting in the gate." All the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

  • Judg 20:31-33
    3 verses
    70%

    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.

    32 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 away from the city to the highways."

    33 All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the ambushers of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.

  • Josh 22:12
    69%

    12 When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.

  • Judg 20:23
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    23 The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until evening; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?" Yahweh said, "Go up against him."

  • 1 Kgs 20:8
    69%

    8 All the elders and all the people said to him, "Don't listen, neither consent."

  • Exod 24:3
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    3 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, "All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do."

  • Num 1:52
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    52 The children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their divisions.

  • 2 Sam 20:2
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    2 So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

  • Ezra 10:12
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    12 Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, "As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

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    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.

  • Deut 1:41
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    41 Then you answered and said to me, "We have sinned against Yahweh, we will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us." Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.

  • Deut 12:8
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    8 You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes;

  • 2 Sam 19:43
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    43 The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?" The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

  • Josh 22:29
    68%

    29 "Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle!"

  • Josh 22:21
    68%

    21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,