Judges 20:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 14:2 : 2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
  • 1 Sam 14:41-42 : 41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, "Show the right." Jonathan and Saul were chosen; but the people escaped. 42 Saul said, "Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son." Jonathan was selected.
  • 1 Chr 24:5 : 5 Thus were they divided impartially by drawing lots; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.
  • Neh 11:1 : 1 The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities.
  • Prov 16:33 : 33 The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.
  • Jonah 1:7 : 7 They all said to each other, "Come, let us cast lots, that we may know who is responsible for this evil that is on us." So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
  • Acts 1:26 : 26 They drew lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

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  • Judg 20:10-15
    6 verses
    86%

    10and 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."

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

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

    13Now 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.

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

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

  • Judg 20:8
    81%

    8All 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.

  • Judg 20:17-21
    5 verses
    77%

    17The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.

    18The 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."

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

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

    21The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.

  • Judg 20:28-39
    12 verses
    75%

    28and 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?" Yahweh said, "Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand."

    29Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.

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

    31The 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.

    32The 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."

    33All 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.

    34There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.

    35Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin 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 place to Benjamin, because they trusted the ambushers whom they had set against Gibeah.

    37The ambushers hurried, and rushed on Gibeah; and the ambushers drew themselves along, and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

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

    39The men of Israel turned in the battle, and 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 20:3
    74%

    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?"

  • Judg 19:12-16
    5 verses
    73%

    12His 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."

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

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

    15They 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.

    16Behold, 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 20:25
    72%

    25Benjamin 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.

  • Josh 18:11
    72%

    11The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families. The border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

  • Judg 20:23
    71%

    23The 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."

  • Josh 8:5
    71%

    5I, 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
    71%

    12So 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 Sam 11:10
    70%

    10Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you."

  • Judg 1:3
    70%

    3Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot." So Simeon went with him.

  • Josh 18:6
    70%

    6You shall survey the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God.

  • 1 Sam 14:10
    70%

    10But if they say this, 'Come up to us!' then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us."

  • Judg 20:5
    70%

    5The 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.

  • Judg 9:32
    70%

    32Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

  • 1 Sam 6:9
    70%

    9Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."

  • Gen 19:13
    70%

    13for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before Yahweh that Yahweh has sent us to destroy it."

  • Josh 10:4
    70%

    4"Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel."

  • Hos 10:9
    70%

    9"Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah. There they remained. The battle against the children of iniquity doesn't overtake them in Gibeah.

  • Gen 19:9
    69%

    9They said, "Stand back!" Then they said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.

  • 1 Sam 8:20
    69%

    20that 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 10:20
    69%

    20So Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was taken.

  • Judg 20:43
    69%

    43They surrounded the Benjamites, chased them, [and] trod them down at [their] resting place, as far as over against Gibeah toward the sunrise.

  • Prov 1:14
    69%

    14You shall cast your lot among us. We'll all have one purse."