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Judges 20:5-10

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5 "But the 1men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house at night because of me. They intended to kill me; instead, they 2ravished my concubine so that she died.
6 "And I 3took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout the land of Israel's inheritance; for 4they have committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel.
7 "Behold, all you sons of Israel, 5give your advice and counsel here."
8 Then all the people arose as one man, saying, "Not one of us will go to his tent, nor will any of us return to his house.
9 "But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up against it by lot.
10 "And we will take 10 men out of 100 throughout the tribes of Israel, and 100 out of 1,000, and 1,000 out of 10,000 * to supply food for the people, that when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, they may punish them for all the disgraceful acts that they have committed in Israel."
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Judges 20:5-10 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 20

This chapter relates, how that there was an assembly of the children of Israel at Mizpeh, upon what had happened to the concubine of the Levite, where he appeared and related the whole affair to them, Jud 20:1-7 upon which they unanimously agreed to chastise the inhabitants of Gibeah for what they had done, Jud 20:8-11, and in order to do that sent to the tribe of Benjamin to deliver the guilty, but instead of that they took to their arms, and prepared for battle in defence of them, Jud 20:12-17 and two battles ensued on this, in which the Israelites, who were on the right side of the question, were worsted, Jud 20:18-25 but upon their seeking the Lord again, and their humiliation before him, they engaged a third time in battle, and got an entire victory over the Benjaminites, and destroyed them all excepting six hundred men, Jud 20:26-48.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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