Jdg 20:1And all the children of Israel went out, and all the congregation was gathered as one man, from Dan even to Bersabee, and in the land of Galaad, to the Lord at Massepha.
Jdg 20:3And the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Massepha: and the children of Israel came and said, Tell us, where did this wickedness take place?
Jdg 20:5And the men of Gabaa rose up against me, and compassed the house by night against me; they wished to slay me, and they have humbled my concubine, and she is dead.
Jdg 20:6And I laid hold of my concubine, and divided her in pieces, and sent the parts into every coast of the inheritance of the children of Israel; for they have wrought lewdness and abomination in Israel.
Jdg 20:10Moreover we will take ten men for a hundred for all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred for a thousand, and a thousand for ten thousand, to take provision, to cause them to come to Gabaa of Benjamin, to do to it according to all the abomination, which [fn]they wrought in Israel.
Jdg 20:13Now then give up the men the [fn]sons of transgressors that are in Gabaa, and we will put them to death, and purge out wickedness from Israel: but the children of Benjamin consented not to hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.
Jdg 20:15And the children of Benjamin from their cities were numbered in that day, twenty-three thousand, every man drawing a sword, besides the inhabitants of Gabaa, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men of all the people, [fn]able to use both hands alike;
Jdg 20:18And they arose and went up to Bæthel, and enquired of God: and the children of Israel said, Who shall go up for us first to fight with the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Juda shall go up first as leader.
Jdg 20:23And the children of Israel went up, and wept before the Lord till evening, and enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall we again draw nigh to battle with our brethren the children of Benjamin? and the Lord said, Go up against them.
Jdg 20:25And the children of Benjamin went forth to meet them from Gabaa on the second day, and destroyed of the children of Israel yet further eighteen thousand men down to the ground: all these drew sword.
Jdg 20:26And the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Bæthel; and they wept, and sat there before the Lord; and they fasted on that day until evening, and offered whole-burnt-offerings and [fn]perfect sacrifices, before the Lord,
Jdg 20:28and Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron stood before it in those days; and the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall we yet again go forth to fight with our brethren the sons of Benjamin? and the Lord said, Go up, to-morrow I will give them into your hands.
Jdg 20:31And the children of Benjamin went out to meet the people, and [fn]were all drawn out of the city, and began to smite and slay the people as before in the roads, [fn]whereof one goes up to Bæthel, and one to Gabaa in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Jdg 20:32And the children of Benjamin said, They fall before us as at the first: but the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them out from the city into the roads; and they did so.
Jdg 20:33And all the men rose up out of their places, and engaged in Baal Thamar; and the liers in wait of Israel advanced from their place from [fn]Maraagabe.
Jdg 20:34And there came over against Gabaa ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel; and the fight was severe; and they knew not that evil [fn]was coming upon them.
Jdg 20:35And the Lord smote Benjamin before the children of Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin in that day a hundred and twenty-five thousand men: all these drew sword.
Jdg 20:36And the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten; and the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted in the ambuscade which they had prepared against Gabaa.
Jdg 20:37And when they retreated, then the liers in wait rose up, and they [fn]moved on toward Gabaa, and the whole ambush came forth, and they smote the city with the edge of the sword.
Jdg 20:39And the children of Israel saw that the liers in wait had seized Gabaa, and they stood in line of battle; and Benjamin began to smite down [fn]wounded ones among the men of Israel about thirty men; for they said, Surely they fall again before us, [fn]as in the first battle.
Jdg 20:40And the signal went up increasingly over the city as a pillar of smoke; and Benjamin looked behind him, and behold the destruction of the city went up to heaven.
Jdg 20:42And they turned to the way of the wilderness from before the children of Israel, and fled: but the battle overtook them, and they from the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.
Jdg 20:45And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon; and the children of Israel [fn]picked off of them five thousand men; and the children of Israel went down after them as far as Gedan, and they smote of them two thousand men.
Jdg 20:47And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon, even six hundred men; and they sojourned four months in the rock of Remmon.
Jdg 20:48And the children of Israel returned to the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword from the city of Methla, even to the cattle, and every thing that was found in all the cities: and they burnt with fire the cities they found.
