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And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any
of us
go to his tent, neither will
we any
of us
turn into his house.
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But now this
shall be
the thing which we will do to Gibeah;
we
will go up
by lot against it;
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And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of
Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the
people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that
they have wrought in Israel.
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So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together
as one man.
12
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness
is
this that is done among you?
13
Now therefore deliver
us
the men, the children of Belial, which
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:
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But the children
of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against
the children of Israel.
15
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities
twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were
numbered seven hundred chosen men.
16
Among all this people
there were
seven hundred chosen
men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair
breadth,
and not miss.
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And the men of
Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these
were
men of war.
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And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God,
and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the L
ORD
said, Judah
shall go up
first.
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And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped
against Gibeah.
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And 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.
21
And the children of Benjamin came forth
out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand
men.
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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.
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(And the children of Israel went up
and wept before the L
ORD
until even, and asked counsel of the L
ORD
, saying, Shall I go up again to
battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the L
ORD
said, Go up against him.)
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And
the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
25
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.
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Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God,
and wept, and sat there before the L
ORD
, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings before the L
ORD
.
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And the children of Israel enquired of the L
ORD
, (for the
ark of the covenant of God
was
there in those days,
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And 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 the L
ORD
said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver
them into thine hand.
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And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
30
And the children of
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