Bible Cross References
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Hosea 9:9
They are hopelessly evil in what they do, just as they were at Gibeah. God will remember their sin and punish them for it.
Judges 19:22-30
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They were enjoying themselves when all of a sudden some sexual perverts from the town surrounded the house and started beating on the door. They said to the old man, "Bring out that man that came home with you! We want to have sex with him!"
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But the old man went outside and said to them, "No, my friends! Please! Don't do such an evil, immoral thing! This man is my guest.
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Look! Here is his concubine and my own virgin daughter. I'll bring them out now, and you can have them. Do whatever you want to with them. But don't do such an awful thing to this man!"
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But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and put her outside with them. They raped her and abused her all night long and didn't stop until morning.
26
At dawn the woman came and fell down at the door of the old man's house, where her husband was. She was still there when daylight came.
27
Her husband got up that morning, and when he opened the door to go on his way, he found his concubine lying in front of the house with her hands reaching for the door.
28
He said, "Get up. Let's go." But there was no answer. So he put her body across the donkey and started on his way home.
29
When he arrived, he went in the house and got a knife. He took his concubine's body, cut it into twelve pieces, and sent one piece to each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
30
Everyone who saw it said, "We have never heard of such a thing! Nothing like this has ever happened since the Israelites left Egypt! We have to do something about this! What will it be?"
Judges 20:5
The men of Gibeah came to get me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me; instead they raped my concubine, and she died.
Judges 20:13
Now hand over those perverts in Gibeah, so that we can kill them and remove this evil from Israel." But the people of Benjamin paid no attention to the other Israelites.
Judges 20:14
From all the cities of Benjamin they came to Gibeah to fight the other people of Israel.
the battle
Judges 20:17-48
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Not counting the tribe of Benjamin, the Israelites gathered 400,000 trained soldiers.
18
The Israelites went to the place of worship at Bethel, and there they asked God, "Which tribe should attack the Benjaminites first?" The LORD answered, "The tribe of Judah."
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So the Israelites started out the next morning and camped near the city of Gibeah.
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They went to attack the army of Benjamin, and placed the soldiers in position facing the city.
21
The army of Benjamin came out of the city, and before the day was over they had killed twenty-two thousand Israelite soldiers.
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Then the Israelites went to the place of worship and mourned in the presence of the LORD until evening. They asked him, "Should we go again into battle against our brothers the Benjaminites?" The LORD answered, "Yes." So the Israelite army was encouraged, and they placed their soldiers in position again, where they had been the day before.
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They marched against the army of Benjamin a second time.
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And for the second time the Benjaminites came out of Gibeah, and this time they killed eighteen thousand trained Israelite soldiers.
26
Then all the people of Israel went up to Bethel and mourned. They sat there in the LORD's presence and did not eat until evening. They offered fellowship sacrifices and burned some sacrifices whole---all in the presence of the LORD.
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God's Covenant Box was there at Bethel in those days, and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron, was in charge of it. The people asked the LORD, "Should we go out to fight our brothers the Benjaminites again, or should we give up?" The LORD answered, "Fight. Tomorrow I will give you victory over them."
29
So the Israelites put some soldiers in hiding around Gibeah.
30
Then for the third straight day they marched against the army of Benjamin and placed their soldiers in battle position facing Gibeah, as they had done before.
31
The Benjaminites came out to fight and were led away from the city. As they had before, they began killing some Israelites in the open country, on the road to Bethel and on the road to Gibeah. They killed about thirty Israelites.
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The Benjaminites said, "We've beaten them just as before." But the Israelites had planned to retreat and lead them away from the city onto the roads.
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So when the main army of the Israelites pulled back and regrouped at Baaltamar, the men surrounding Gibeah suddenly rushed out of their hiding places in the rocky country around the city.
34
Ten thousand men, specially chosen out of all Israel, attacked Gibeah, and the fighting was hard. The Benjaminites had not realized that they were about to be destroyed.
35
The LORD gave Israel victory over the army of Benjamin. The Israelites killed 25,100 of the enemy that day,
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and the Benjaminites realized they were defeated. The main body of the Israelite army had retreated from the Benjaminites because they were relying on the men that they had put in hiding around Gibeah.
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These men ran quickly toward Gibeah; they spread out in the city and killed everyone there.
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The main Israelite army and the men in hiding had arranged a signal. When they saw a big cloud of smoke going up from the town,
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the Israelites out on the battlefield were to turn around. By this time the Benjaminites had already killed the thirty Israelites. They told themselves, "Yes, we've beaten them just as before."
40
Then the signal appeared; a cloud of smoke began to go up from the town. The Benjaminites looked behind them and were amazed to see the whole city going up in flames.
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Then the Israelites turned around, and the Benjaminites were thrown into panic because they realized that they were about to be destroyed.
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They retreated from the Israelites and ran toward the open country, but they could not escape. They were caught between the main army and the men who were now coming out of the city, and they were destroyed.
43
The Israelites had the enemy trapped, and without stopping they pursued them as far as a point east of Gibeah, killing them as they went.
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Eighteen thousand of the best Benjaminite soldiers were killed.
45
The others turned and ran toward the open country to Rimmon Rock. Five thousand of them were killed on the roads. The Israelites continued to pursue the rest to Gidom, killing two thousand.
46
In all, twenty-five thousand Benjaminites were killed that day---all of them brave soldiers.
47
But six hundred men were able to escape to the open country to Rimmon Rock, and they stayed there four months.
48
The Israelites turned back against the rest of the Benjaminites and killed them all---men, women, and children, and animals as well. They burned every town in the area.
did
Genesis 6:5
When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,
Genesis 8:21
The odor of the sacrifice pleased the LORD, and he said to himself, "Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time.
Zephaniah 3:6
The LORD says, "I have wiped out whole nations; I have destroyed their cities and left their walls and towers in ruins. The cities are deserted; the streets are empty---no one is left.
Zephaniah 3:7
I thought that then my people would have reverence for me and accept my discipline, that they would never forget the lesson I taught them. But soon they were behaving as badly as ever.
Matthew 23:31
So you actually admit that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets!
Matthew 23:32
Go on, then, and finish up what your ancestors started!