Judges 20 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Resolve to Punish the Guilty

Jdg 20:1And all the children of Israel went forth, and the assembly gathered together as one man, from Dan to Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, unto Jehovah at Mizpah.

Jdg 20:2

Jdg 20:2And the heads of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the congregation of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

Jdg 20:3

Jdg 20:3And the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah. And the children of Israel said, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

Jdg 20:4

Jdg 20:4Then the Levite, the husband of the woman that was murdered, answered and said, I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.

Jdg 20:5

Jdg 20:5And the citizens of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house because of me, by night; they thought to slay me, and my concubine have they humbled so that she died.

Jdg 20:6

Jdg 20:6Then I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and villany in Israel.

Jdg 20:7

Jdg 20:7Behold, all ye, children of Israel, deliberate and give here your counsel.

Jdg 20:8

Jdg 20:8And all the people rose up as one man, saying, We will not any one go to his tent, neither will we any one turn into his house.

Jdg 20:9

Jdg 20:9But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we go by lot against it;

Jdg 20:10

Jdg 20:10and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to fetch victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the villany that they have wrought in Israel.

Jdg 20:11

Jdg 20:11And all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

Jdg 20:12

Jdg 20:12And the tribes of Israel sent men to all the families of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that has been done among you?

Jdg 20:13

Jdg 20:13And now give up the men, the sons of Belial, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.

Jdg 20:14

Jdg 20:14And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities of Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

Jdg 20:15

Jdg 20:15And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities, twenty-six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

Jdg 20:16

Jdg 20:16Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men left-handed; all these slang stones at a hair breadth, and missed not.

Jdg 20:17

Jdg 20:17And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

Civil War, Benjamin Defeated

Jdg 20:18

Jdg 20:18And the children of Israel arose and went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah first.

Jdg 20:19

Jdg 20:19And the children of Israel rose up in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.

Jdg 20:20

Jdg 20:20And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight against them at Gibeah.

Jdg 20:21

Jdg 20:21And the children of Benjamin went forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty-two thousand men.

Jdg 20:22

Jdg 20:22And the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and set the battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

Jdg 20:23

Jdg 20:23And the children of Israel went up and wept before Jehovah until even, and inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And Jehovah said, Go up against him.

Jdg 20:24

Jdg 20:24And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

Jdg 20:25

Jdg 20:25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and again destroyed to the ground of the children of Israel eighteen thousand men: all these drew the sword.

Jdg 20:26

Jdg 20:26Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up and came to Bethel, and wept, and abode there before Jehovah, and fasted that day until even, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Jehovah.

Jdg 20:27

Jdg 20:27And the children of Israel inquired of Jehovah (and the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

Jdg 20:28

Jdg 20:28and 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? And Jehovah said, Go up; for to-morrow I will give them into thy hand.

Jdg 20:29

Jdg 20:29And Israel set liers in wait against Gibeah, round about.

Jdg 20:30

Jdg 20:30And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at the other times.

Jdg 20:31

Jdg 20:31And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city, and began to smite of the people, slaying as at the former times, in the highways, of which one leads to Bethel and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

Jdg 20:32

Jdg 20:32And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. And the children of Israel said, Let us flee, that we may draw them from the city to the highways.

Jdg 20:33

Jdg 20:33And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baal-Tamar; and the ambush of Israel rushed forth out of their place, out of the meadows of Geba.

Jdg 20:34

Jdg 20:34And there came from opposite Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was severe; but they knew not that disaster was coming upon them.

Jdg 20:35

Jdg 20:35And Jehovah smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjaminites that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.

Jdg 20:36

Jdg 20:36And the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten. -- And the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the ambush that they had set against Gibeah.

Jdg 20:37

Jdg 20:37And the ambush hasted, and fell upon Gibeah; and the ambush drew along, and smote the whole city with the edge of the sword.

Jdg 20:38

Jdg 20:38Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambush, that they should make a thick column of smoke rise up out of the city.

Jdg 20:39

Jdg 20:39And when the men of Israel turned back in the battle, Benjamin began to smite, slaying of the men of Israel about thirty men; for they said, Surely they are quite routed before us as in the first battle.

Jdg 20:40

Jdg 20:40And when the burning began to rise up out of the city as a pillar of smoke, Benjamin looked behind, and behold, the whole city ascended in smoke to the heavens.

Jdg 20:41

Jdg 20:41Then the men of Israel turned back, and the men of Benjamin were amazed, for they saw that disaster was come upon them.

Jdg 20:42

Jdg 20:42And they turned before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in their midst.

Jdg 20:43

Jdg 20:43They encompassed the Benjaminites, chased them, trode them down at the resting-place over against Gibeah toward the sun-rising.

Jdg 20:44

Jdg 20:44And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men: all these, men of valour.

Jdg 20:45

Jdg 20:45And they turned and fled towards the wilderness to the cliff of Rimmon, and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them to Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

Jdg 20:46

Jdg 20:46So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword: all these, men of valour.

Jdg 20:47

Jdg 20:47And six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness to the cliff of Rimmon, and abode at the cliff of Rimmon four months.

Jdg 20:48

Jdg 20:48And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city as the cattle, and all that was found; even all the cities that were found did they set on fire.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Resolve to Punish the Guilty

Civil War, Benjamin Defeated

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