The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Chester]

Judges 20:22

And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:23, "And the children of Yisra’ĕl went up and wept before יהוה until evening, and asked of יהוה, saying, “Should I again draw near for battle against the children of my brother Binyamin?” And יהוה said, “Go up against him.”

 

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[h=1]Judges 20:24King James Version (KJV)[/h][FONT=&quot]24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

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[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 20:25 (KJV)
And Benjamin 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.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:26 And all the children of Yisra’ĕl, even all the people, went up and came to Bĕyth Yl and wept, and sat there before יהוה and fasted that day until evening. And they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before יהוה."

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 20:26 (NASB)
[SUP]26 [/SUP] Then all the sons of Israel and all the people went up and came to Bethel and wept; thus they remained there before the LORD and fasted that day until evening. And they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:27, "And the children of Yisra’yl asked of יהוה – the ark of the covenant of Yah was there in those days."

 

[willfollowsGod]

Judges 20:28
New International Version (NIV)

with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?”


The LORD responded, “Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.”

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 20:29 (NASB)
[SUP]29 [/SUP] So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:30 And the children of Yisra’yl went up against the children of Binyamin on the third day, and put themselves in battle array against Giḇ‛ah as at the other times."

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 20:31 (NASB)
[SUP]31 [/SUP] The sons of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city, and they began to strike and kill some of the people as at other times, on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 20:32 (KJV)
And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:33, "And all the men of Yisra’yl rose from their place and put themselves in battle array at Ba‛al Tamar. And the ambush of Yisra’yl broke forth from their position at Ma‛areh Ìeḇa."

 

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[mar09]

Jdg 20:35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:36, "And the children of Binyamin saw that they were smitten. And the men of Yisra’yl had given ground to the Binyamites, because they trusted in the ambush that they had set against Giḇ‛ah."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Judges 20:37 (ERV)
And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

 

[Grace777x70]

Judges 20:38 (NASB)
[SUP]38 [/SUP] Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that they would make a great cloud of smoke rise from the city.

 

[seed_time_harvest]

Judges 20:39
King James Version(KJV)

39.)And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

 

[Hizikyah]

Judges 20:40, "Then the cloud began to rise from the city in a column of smoke, and the Binyamites looked behind them, and saw the entire city going up in smoke to the heavens."