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Judges 20:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house. "

Judges 20:8

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6 I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

7 Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.”

8 All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn 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 ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that the men of Gibeah have done in Israel.”

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Judges 20:1

"Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to the LORD at Mizpah."

Judges 20:2

"The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword."

Judges 20:3

"(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wickedness happen?”"

Judges 20:4

"The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, “I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night."

Judges 20:5

"The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead."

Judges 20:6

"I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel."

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