< Judges 20 >
1 and to come out: come all son: descendant/people Israel and to gather [the] congregation like/as man one to/for from Dan and till Beersheba Beersheba and land: country/planet [the] Gilead to(wards) LORD [the] Mizpah
And 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.
2 and to stand corner all [the] people all tribe Israel in/on/with assembly people [the] God four hundred thousand man on foot to draw sword
And all the tribes of Israel stood before the Lord in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
3 and to hear: hear son: descendant/people Benjamin for to ascend: rise son: descendant/people Israel [the] Mizpah and to say son: descendant/people Israel to speak: speak how? to be [the] distress: evil [the] this
And 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?
4 and to answer [the] man [the] Levi man: husband [the] woman [the] to murder and to say [the] Gibeah [to] which to/for Benjamin to come (in): come I and concubine my to/for to lodge
And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I and my concubine went to Gabaa of Benjamin to lodge.
5 and to arise: rise upon me master [the] Gibeah and to turn: surround upon me [obj] [the] house: home night [obj] me to resemble to/for to kill and [obj] concubine my to afflict and to die
And 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.
6 and to grasp in/on/with concubine my and to cut her and to send: depart her in/on/with all land: country inheritance Israel for to make: do wickedness and folly in/on/with Israel
And 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.
7 behold all your son: descendant/people Israel to give to/for you word and counsel here
Behold, all ye [are] children of Israel; and consider and take counsel here among yourselves.
8 and to arise: rise all [the] people like/as man one to/for to say not to go: went man: anyone to/for tent his and not to turn aside: depart man: anyone to/for house: home his
And all the people rose up as one man, saying, No one of us shall return to his tent, and no one of us shall return to his house.
9 and now this [the] word: thing which to make: do to/for Gibeah upon her in/on/with allotted
And now this [is] the thing which shall be done in Gabaa; we will go up against it by lot.
10 and to take: take ten human to/for hundred to/for all tribe Israel and hundred to/for thousand and thousand to/for myriad to/for to take: bring provision to/for people: soldiers to/for to make: do to/for to come (in): come them to/for Gibeah Benjamin like/as all [the] folly which to make: do in/on/with Israel
Moreover 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 they wrought in Israel.
11 and to gather all man Israel to(wards) [the] city like/as man one companion
And all the men of Israel were gathered to the city as one man.
12 and to send: depart tribe Israel human in/on/with all tribe Benjamin to/for to say what? [the] distress: evil [the] this which to be in/on/with you
And the tribes of Israel sent men through the whole tribe of Benjamin, saying, What [is] this wickedness that has been wrought among you?
13 and now to give: give [obj] [the] human son: type of Belial which in/on/with Gibeah and to die them and to burn: purge distress: evil from Israel and not (be willing son: descendant/people *Q(K)*) Benjamin to/for to hear: hear in/on/with voice brother: compatriot their son: descendant/people Israel
Now then give up the men the 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.
14 and to gather son: descendant/people Benjamin from [the] city [the] Gibeah [to] to/for to come out: come to/for battle with son: descendant/people Israel
And the children of Benjamin were gathered from their cities to Gabaa, to go forth to fight with the children of Israel.
15 and to reckon: list son: descendant/people Benjamin in/on/with day [the] he/she/it from [the] city twenty and six thousand man to draw sword to/for alone: besides from to dwell [the] Gibeah to reckon: list seven hundred man to choose
And 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, able to use both hands alike;
16 from all [the] people: soldiers [the] this seven hundred man to choose lefthanded hand right his all this to sling in/on/with stone to(wards) [the] hair and not to sin
All these could sling with stones at a hair, and not miss.
17 and man Israel to reckon: list to/for alone: besides from Benjamin four hundred thousand man to draw sword all this man battle
And the men of Israel, exclusive of Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these [were] men of war.
18 and to arise: rise and to ascend: rise Bethel Bethel and to ask in/on/with God and to say son: descendant/people Israel who? to ascend: rise to/for us in/on/with beginning to/for battle with son: descendant/people Benjamin and to say LORD Judah in/on/with beginning
And they arose and went up to Baethel, 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.
19 and to arise: rise son: descendant/people Israel in/on/with morning and to camp upon [the] Gibeah
And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gabaa.
20 and to come out: come man Israel to/for battle with Benjamin and to arrange with them man Israel battle to(wards) [the] Gibeah
And they went out, all the men of Israel, to fight with Benjamin, and engaged with them at Gabaa.
21 and to come out: come son: descendant/people Benjamin from [the] Gibeah and to ruin in/on/with Israel in/on/with day [the] he/she/it two and twenty thousand man land: soil [to]
And the sons of Benjamin went forth from Gabaa, and they destroyed in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men down to the ground.
22 and to strengthen: strengthen [the] people: soldiers man Israel and to add: again to/for to arrange battle in/on/with place which to arrange there in/on/with day [the] first
And the men of Israel strengthened themselves, and again engaged in battle in the place where they had engaged on the first day.
23 and to ascend: rise son: descendant/people Israel and to weep to/for face: before LORD till [the] evening and to ask in/on/with LORD to/for to say to add: again to/for to approach: approach to/for battle with son: descendant/people Benjamin brother: compatriot my and to say LORD to ascend: rise to(wards) him
And 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.
24 and to present: come son: descendant/people Israel to(wards) son: descendant/people Benjamin in/on/with day [the] second
And the children of Israel advanced against the children of Benjamin on the second day.
25 and to come out: come Benjamin to/for to encounter: toward them from [the] Gibeah in/on/with day [the] second and to ruin in/on/with son: descendant/people Israel still eight ten thousand man land: soil [to] all these to draw sword
And 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.
26 and to ascend: rise all son: descendant/people Israel and all [the] people: soldiers and to come (in): come Bethel Bethel and to weep and to dwell there to/for face: before LORD and to fast in/on/with day [the] he/she/it till [the] evening and to ascend: offer up burnt offering and peace offering to/for face: before LORD
And the children of Israel and all the people went up, and came to Baethel; and they wept, and sat there before the Lord; and they fasted on that day until evening, and offered whole-burnt-offerings and perfect sacrifices, before the Lord,
27 and to ask son: descendant/people Israel in/on/with LORD and there ark covenant [the] God in/on/with day [the] they(masc.)
for the ark of the Lord God [was] there in those days,
28 and Phinehas son: child Eleazar son: child Aaron to stand: appoint to/for face: before his in/on/with day [the] they(masc.) to/for to say to add: again still to/for to come out: come to/for battle with son: descendant/people Benjamin brother: compatriot my if to cease and to say LORD to ascend: rise for tomorrow to give: give him in/on/with hand: power your
and 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.
29 and to set: make Israel to ambush to(wards) [the] Gibeah around
And the children of Israel set an ambush against Gabaa round about [it].
30 and to ascend: rise son: descendant/people Israel to(wards) son: descendant/people Benjamin in/on/with day [the] third and to arrange to(wards) [the] Gibeah like/as beat in/on/with beat
And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and arrayed themselves against Gabaa as before.
31 and to come out: come son: descendant/people Benjamin to/for to encounter: toward [the] people: soldiers to tear from [the] city and to profane/begin: begin to/for to smite from [the] people: soldiers slain: killed like/as beat in/on/with beat in/on/with highway which one to ascend: rise Bethel Bethel and one Gibeah [to] in/on/with land: country like/as thirty man in/on/with Israel
And the children of Benjamin went out to meet the people, and were all drawn out of the city, and began to smite and slay the people as before in the roads, whereof one goes up to Baethel, and one to Gabaa in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
32 and to say son: descendant/people Benjamin to strike they(masc.) to/for face: before our like/as in/on/with first and son: descendant/people Israel to say to flee and to tear him from [the] city to(wards) [the] highway
And 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.
33 and all man Israel to arise: rise from place his and to arrange in/on/with Baal-tamar Baal-tamar and to ambush Israel to burst/come out from place his from Maareh (Maareh)-geba
And 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 Maraagabe.
34 and to come (in): come from before to/for Gibeah ten thousand man to choose from all Israel and [the] battle to honor: heavy and they(masc.) not to know for to touch upon them [the] distress: harm
And there came over against Gabaa ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel; and the fight [was] severe; and they knew not that evil was coming upon them.
35 and to strike LORD [obj] Benjamin to/for face: before Israel and to ruin son: descendant/people Israel in/on/with Benjamin in/on/with day [the] he/she/it twenty and five thousand and hundred man all these to draw sword
And 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.
36 and to see: see son: descendant/people Benjamin for to strike and to give: give man Israel place to/for Benjamin for to trust to(wards) [the] to ambush which to set: make to(wards) [the] Gibeah
And 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.
37 and [the] to ambush to hasten and to strip to(wards) [the] Gibeah and to draw [the] to ambush and to smite [obj] all [the] city to/for lip: edge sword
And when they retreated, then the liers in wait rose up, and they moved toward Gabaa, and the whole ambush came forth, and they smote the city with the edge of the sword.
38 and [the] meeting: signal appointed to be to/for man Israel with [the] to ambush to multiply to/for to ascend: rise them tribute [the] smoke from [the] city
And the children of Israel had a signal of battle with the liers in wait, that they should send up a signal of smoke from the city.
39 and to overturn man Israel in/on/with battle and Benjamin to profane/begin: begin to/for to smite slain: killed in/on/with man Israel like/as thirty man for to say surely to strike to strike he/she/it to/for face: before our like/as battle [the] first
And 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 wounded ones among the men of Israel about thirty men; for they said, Surely they fall again before us, as in the first battle.
40 and [the] tribute to profane/begin: begin to/for to ascend: rise from [the] city pillar smoke and to turn Benjamin after him and behold to ascend: rise entire [the] city [the] heaven [to]
And 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.
41 and man Israel to overturn and to dismay man Benjamin for to see: see for to touch upon him [the] distress: harm
And the men of Israel turned back, and the men of Benjamin hasted, because they saw that evil had come upon them.
42 and to turn to/for face: before man Israel to(wards) way: direction [the] wilderness and [the] battle to cleave him and which from [the] city to ruin [obj] him in/on/with midst his
And 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.
43 to surround [obj] Benjamin to pursue him Nohah to tread him till before [the] Gibeah from east sun
And they cut down Benjamin, and pursued him from Nua closely till they came opposite Gabaa on the east.
44 and to fall: kill from Benjamin eight ten thousand man [obj] all these human strength
And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men: all these [were] men of might.
45 and to turn and to flee [the] wilderness [to] to(wards) crag [the] (Rock of) Rimmon and to glean him in/on/with highway five thousand man and to cleave after him till Gidom and to smite from him thousand man
And the rest turned, and fled to the wilderness to the rock of Remmon; and the children of Israel 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.
46 and to be all [the] to fall: kill from Benjamin twenty and five thousand man to draw sword in/on/with day [the] he/she/it [obj] all these human strength
And all that fell of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew sword in that day: all these were men of might.
47 and to turn and to flee [the] wilderness [to] to(wards) crag [the] (Rock of) Rimmon six hundred man and to dwell in/on/with crag (Rock of) Rimmon four month
And 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.
48 and man Israel to return: turn back to(wards) son: descendant/people Benjamin and to smite them to/for lip: edge sword from city soundness till animal till all [the] to find also all [the] city [the] to find to send: burn in/on/with fire
And 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.