Shofetim 20:7

7 Hinei, ye are all Bnei Yisroel; give here your advice and etzah (counsel, verdict).

Shofetim 20:7 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:7

Behold, ye are all children of Israel
The descendants of one man that feared the Lord; were of one nation, and of one religion, men professing godliness, and therefore ought to bear testimony against sin and wickedness of every sort, and especially such crying abominations as these:

give your advice and counsel:
in this place, being assembled together on this occasion; consult what is best to be done, and let every man speak his mind freely what step he thinks should be taken for the glory of God, and honour of religion, and to bring such persons to justice who had committed so foul a fact.

Shofetim 20:7 In-Context

5 And the ba’alei haGiv’ah rose against me, and surrounded the bais upon me by lailah, and intended to have murdered me; and my pilegesh have they raped, that she is dead.

6 And I took my pilegesh, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout kol sedeh nachalat Yisroel; for they have committed zimmah (lewdness) and nevalah (wickedness, outrage, disgrace) in Yisroel.

7 Hinei, ye are all Bnei Yisroel; give here your advice and etzah (counsel, verdict).

8 And kol haAm arose as ish echad, saying, We will not any of us go to his ohel, neither will we any of us return into his bais.

9 But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Giv’ah; we will go up bigoral (by lot) against it;