Judges 20
20:1And there came forth all the sons of Israel, and the congregation held an assembly as one man, from Dan and unto Beer-sheba, and the land of Gilead, before the lord in Mizpeh.
20:2And the region established all of the people in all the tribes of Israel in the assembly of the people of God -- four hundred thousand men on foot unsheathing the broadsword.
20:3And the sons of Benjamin heard that the sons of Israel ascended unto Mizpeh. And the sons of Israel said, Tell where this evil took place?
20:4And the man answered, the Levite, the husband of the woman having been murdered. And he said, I came unto Gibeah of Benjamin, I and my concubine to rest up.
20:5And the men rose up against me, the ones of Gibeah, and they encircled upon me, upon the house at night; and they wanted to kill me, and they humbled my concubine, and sported with her, and she died.
20:6And I took hold of my concubine, and I dismembered her, and I sent out into every border of the inheritance of Israel; for they committed folly in Israel.
20:7Behold, all you, the sons of Israel, make to yourselves an account and plan here!
20:8And all the people rose up as one man, saying, We shall not enter -- a man into his tent, and we shall not turn aside -- a man to his house.
20:9And now this is the thing which we shall do to Gibeah; we will ascend against it by lot.
20:10And we shall take ten men out of a hundred for all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of a thousand men, and a thousand out of ten thousand men, to take a provision for the people, to complete the task to the ones in going unto Gibeah of Benjamin, against all the folly which they did in Israel.
20:11And came together every man of Israel to the city as one man coming.
20:12And the tribes of Israel sent out men in all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What is this evil that took place among you?
20:13And now, give over the impious men in Gibeah, the sons of Belial, and we shall kill them and lift away evil from Israel. But the sons of Benjamin did not want to hear the voice of their brethren of the sons of Israel.
20:14And the sons of Benjamin came together from their cities to Gibeah, to go forth into battle array against the sons of Israel.
20:15And the sons of Benjamin numbered in that day of the cities, twenty five thousand men unsheathing the broadsword, apart from the ones dwelling in Gibeah.
20:16These numbered seven hundred chosen men from all of the people, ambidextrous; all these were slingers casting stones accurate to the hair, and not missing.
20:17And every man of Israel -- they were numbered, separate from the sons of Benjamin, four hundred thousand men unsheathing the broadsword; all these were men warriors.
20:18And they rose up and ascended unto Beth-el, and asked of God. And the sons of Israel said, Who shall ascend to us guiding to wage war with the sons of Benjamin? And the lord said, Judah shall ascend guiding.
20:19And the sons of Israel rose up in the morning, and camped at Gibeah.
20:20And every man of Israel went forth for war against Benjamin; and he deployed against them -- the man of Israel for war against Gibeah.
20:21And came forth the sons of Benjamin from the city, and utterly destroyed in Israel on that day two and twenty thousand men upon the ground.
20:22And the people strengthened -- the man of Israel, and proceeded to deploy for war in the place in which he deployed there on the first day.
20:23And the sons of Israel ascended up, and they wept before the lord until evening, and they asked of the lord, saying, Shall I proceed to draw near for war against the sons of Benjamin my brother? And the lord said, Ascend against him!
20:24And the sons of Israel came forward against the sons of Benjamin in the second day.
20:25And Benjamin came forth to meet them from Gibeah on the second day. And they utterly destroyed yet of the people of Israel eighteen thousand men upon the ground, all these unsheathing the broadsword.
20:26And all the sons of Israel ascended up, and all the people, and they came unto Beth-el and wept, and sat there before the lord, and fasted in that day until evening; and they offered a whole burnt-offering for deliverance before the lord.
20:27And the sons of Israel asked in the lord. And the ark of the covenant of the lord was there in those days.
20:28And Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron stood before it in those days, saying, Shall I proceed still to go forth for war against the sons of Benjamin my brother, or slacken? And the lord said, Ascend, and tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.
20:29And the sons of Israel placed an ambush in Gibeah round about.
20:30And the sons of Israel ascended against the sons of Benjamin on the third day. And they deployed against Gibeah as once before, and once before that.
20:31And the sons of Benjamin came forth for meeting the people, and were drawn away from the city. And they began to strike of the people (slain as once before, and once before that) in the ways which there is one ascending to Beth-el, and one ascending to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
20:32And the sons of Benjamin said, They stumble before us as before. And the sons of Israel said, We should flee and pull them out from the city into the ways.
20:33And every man of Israel rose up from his place, and deployed in Baal-tamar. And the ambush of Israel wrestled from out of its place from the descent of Gibeah.
20:34And they arrived right opposite Gibeah -- ten thousand chosen men from out of all Israel. And the battle weighed down, and they did not know that hurt has been affixed upon them.
20:35And the lord put Benjamin to flight before Israel. And the sons of Israel utterly destroyed among Benjamin in that day twenty and five thousand and a hundred men, all these unsheathing the broadsword.
20:36And the sons of Benjamin beheld that they were put to flight. And the man of Israel gave place to Benjamin, for they hoped upon the ambush which they arranged near Gibeah.
20:37And the ambush advanced, and they poured out against Gibeah. And the ambush went, and they struck all the city by the mouth of the broadsword.
20:38And the arranged order was with the man of Israel with the ambush, for them to offer a signal-fire of smoke from the city.
20:39And the man of Israel turned in the battle. And Benjamin began to strike slain against the man of Israel about thirty men. For they said, Surely being put to flight he was put to flight before us as the battle before.
20:40And the signal-fire began to ascend from the city as a column of smoke. And Benjamin looked behind him, and behold, there ascended the consummation of the city unto the heaven.
20:41And the man of Israel turned. And the man of Benjamin hastened, for he beheld that a bad thing has touched him.
20:42And they leaned before the man of Israel in the way of the wilderness, and the battle fell upon them unawares; and the ones from the cities -- they utterly destroyed them in their midst.
20:43And they cut up Benjamin, and pursued him according to his feet, and trampled him unto before Gibeah towards the rising of the sun.
20:44And eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all these men of power.
20:45And they turned aside and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. And they gleaned him in the ways -- five thousand men. And they cleaved after them unto Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.
20:46And it came to pass all the ones falling among Benjamin was twenty-five thousand men unsheathing the broadsword in that day; all these were men of power.
20:47And they turned aside and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon -- six hundred men; and they stayed at the rock of Rimmon four months.
20:48And the man of Israel turned against the sons of Benjamin, and they struck them by the mouth of the broadsword, from the next city, unto beast, and unto all being found in the cities; and the cities being found they burned by fire.