Focused Passage

Judges 20:8-11

Israel's Civil War Against Benjamin: Justice, Judgment, and Near Tribal Ruin

Judges 20 moves from shocked national unity over Gibeah's outrage, through Benjamin's refusal to give up the guilty, through repeated defeat and intensified seeking of the LORD, into divinely granted victory that becomes catastrophic civil war and leaves Benjamin almost extinguished.

Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources

8Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.

9Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will go against it as the lot dictates.

10We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”

11So all the men of Israel gathered as one man, united against the city.

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Verse 8

Cross-references

Ecclesiastes 9:10Classic cross-references Judges 20:1Classic cross-references Judges 21:1Classic cross-references Proverbs 21:3Classic cross-references

Original words

Then allכָּל־H3605Noun - masculine singular constructthe peopleהָעָ֔םH5971Article | Noun - masculine singularstoodוַיָּ֙קָם֙H6965Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularas oneאֶחָ֖דH259Number - masculine singularmanכְּאִ֥ישׁH376Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singularand saidלֵאמֹ֑רH559Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive constructNot oneלֹ֤אH3808Adverb - Negative particle. . .אִ֣ישׁH376Noun - masculine singularof us will returnנֵלֵךְ֙H1980Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common pluralto his tentלְאָהֳל֔וֹH168Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular. . .וְלֹ֥אH3808Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle[or]נָס֖וּרH5493Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural. . .אִ֥ישׁH376Noun - masculine singularto his houseלְבֵיתֽוֹ׃H1004Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular

Verse 9

Original words

Nowוְעַתָּ֕הH6258Conjunctive waw | Adverbthisזֶ֣הH2088Pronoun - masculine singular. . .הַדָּבָ֔רH1697Article | Noun - masculine singularis whatאֲשֶׁ֥רH834Pronoun - relativewe will doנַעֲשֶׂ֖הH6213Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common pluralto Gibeahלַגִּבְעָ֑הH1390Preposition-l, Article | Noun - proper - feminine singularWe will go against itעָלֶ֖יהָH5921Preposition | third person feminine singularas the lot dictatesבְּגוֹרָֽל׃H1486Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular

Verse 10

Cross-references

Deuteronomy 22:21Classic cross-references

Original words

We will takeוְלָקַ֣חְנוּH3947Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common pluraltenעֲשָׂרָה֩H6235Number - masculine singularmenאֲנָשִׁ֨יםH582Noun - masculine pluralout of [every] hundredלַמֵּאָ֜הH3967Preposition-l, Article | Number - feminine singularfrom allלְכֹ֣ל׀H3605Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular constructthe tribesשִׁבְטֵ֣יH7626Noun - masculine plural constructof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵ֗לH3478Noun - proper - masculine singularand a hundredוּמֵאָ֤הH3967Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singularout of [every] thousandלָאֶ֙לֶף֙H505Preposition-l, Article | Number - masculine singularand a thousandוְאֶ֣לֶףH505Conjunctive waw | Number - masculine singularout of [every] ten thousandלָרְבָבָ֔הH7233Preposition-l, Article | Number - feminine singularto supplyלָקַ֥חַתH3947Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive constructprovisionsצֵדָ֖הH6720Noun - feminine singularfor the armyלָעָ֑םH5971Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singularwhen they goלְבוֹאָם֙H935Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine pluralto Gibeahלְגֶ֣בַעH1387Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singularin Benjaminבִּנְיָמִ֔ןH1144Noun - proper - masculine singularto punish themלַעֲשׂ֗וֹתH6213Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive constructvvvכְּכָל־H3605Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular constructfor the atrocityהַ֨נְּבָלָ֔הH5039Article | Noun - feminine singular-אֲשֶׁ֥רH834Pronoun - relativethey have committedעָשָׂ֖הH6213Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singularin Israelבְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃H3478Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular

BSB notes

One Hebrew manuscript; most Hebrew manuscripts Geba, a variant of Gibeah

Verse 11

Cross-references

1 Samuel 18:1Classic cross-references

Original words

So allכָּל־H3605Noun - masculine singular constructthe menאִ֤ישׁH376Noun - masculine singular constructof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵל֙H3478Noun - proper - masculine singulargatheredוַיֵּֽאָסֵ֞ףH622Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singularas oneאֶחָ֖דH259Number - masculine singularmanכְּאִ֥ישׁH376Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singularunitedחֲבֵרִֽים׃פH2270Noun - masculine pluralagainstאֶל־H413Prepositionthe cityהָעִ֔ירH5892Article | Noun - feminine singular

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